774 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Lester F. Ward. Asa Gray and Darwinism. 



The Historical American, I, Cleveland, Ohio, August, 1888, pp. 85-92, with portrait as frontis- 

 piece to magazine. 



This paper was read at the Gray memorial meeting of the botanical section of the Biological 

 Society of Wahington, April 5, 1888. It gives an historical account of Dr. Gray's early 

 and sustained relations with Charles Darwin, his instrumentality in furthering the spread 

 of his views, the nature of his acceptance of those views, and tho manner in wbicb, as a 

 botanist, Dr. Gray has been able to utilize Darwinian principles as a working basis in his 

 department of science. 



Lester F. Ward. Our Better Halves. 



The Forum, New York, VI, November, 1888, pp. 2G6-275. 



It is maintained in this article that the female sex is primary and the male secondary in 

 organic economy; that woman represents the principle of heredity, and that acquired 

 qualities in woman are more regularly transmitted than in men. The alleged superiority 

 of the males of animals is shown to be apparent only, and confined to some higher types, 

 acquired chiefly through the operation of sexual selection. The conclusion is drawn that 

 " the elevation of woman is the only sure road to the evolution of man." 



Lester F. Ward. Nya Anrmerkningar om Williamsonia af A. G. Natliorst. (Notice.) 



Am. Journ. Sci., third series, xxxvj, November, 1888, p. 301. 



Brief notice of a paper with the above title in tho Ofversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps Akade- 

 miens Fiuhandlingar for Juni, 1888, No. 6, announcing the discovery of Williamsonia 

 angustifolia Nath., attached to Anomozamites minor (Brongn.) Nath. 



Lkstkr F. Ward. The Paleontologic History of the genus Platanus. 



Proc. 77. S. Nat. Mas., XI, Washington, 1888, pp. 39-12, plates xvii-xxi. 



An attempt to trace the history of the genus back through the several formations in the 

 United States to the Dakota group, and to show that many of the forms that have been 

 referred to Sassafras, Aralia, Liquidambar, and Aspidiophylluuj, are probably ancestral 

 types leading up to it. 



Lester F. Ward. American Weather. (Review.) 

 The Epoch, IV, January 23, 1889, p. 4G3. 

 Notice of General A. W. Greely's book, so entitled. 



Lester F. Ward. The " King Devil." 



Botanical Oazette, xiv, January, 1889, pp. 10-17. 



An account of the discovery of a hawkweed (Hieracium prcealtum) in 1879 near Carthage and 

 Evans Mills, Jefferson County, New York, then a recent immigrant from Europe, and of 

 an investigation and of its subsequent spread, aud injurious effects ; made in 1888 in the 

 same locality. The plant had then become a scourge to the farmers and had acquired the 

 name of King Devil. 



Lester F. Ward. Remarks on an undescribed vegetable organism from the Fort 

 Union group of Montana. 



Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Cleveland meeting, 1888, xxxvn, Salem, 1889, pp. 199-201. 

 Abstract of a paper read before the Geological Section of the American Association describ- 

 ing a very singular organism collected by the author on the Lower Yellowstone River near 

 Glendive, Montana, believed by him to be a comprehensive type of vascular cryptogram 

 related to Ophioglossum, Isoetes, aud Selaginella. Illustrated by lantern views. 



Lester F. Ward. The Paleontologic History of the genus Platanus. 



Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Cleveland meeting, 1888, xxxvn, Salem, 1889, pp. 201, 202. 



Abstract of a paper of same title read before the Geological Section of tho American Asso- 

 ciation, illustrated by lantern views and published in full with 5 plates in Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 39 {q.v.sujtra). 



Lester F. Ward. Some Social and Economic Paradoxes. — 



The American Anthropologist, n, April, 1889, pp. 119-132. 



The same paper revised and published in full which appeared in an abridged form in Science, 



vol. XI, April 13, 1888, pp. 172, 174-170. See brief abstract of contents under entry of that 



date. 



Lester F. Ward. (Administrative Report to the Director of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey for the year ending June 30, 18S6. ) 



Seventh Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1885~'86, June, 1889, pp. 123-126. 



