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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



WARD, Lkster F. — contimied. 1 



Address of the Vice-President of Section I, i 

 Economic Science and Statistics, delivered at ; 

 Rochester, August 17,1892. This jjaper is the 

 same in substance as that published in the 

 Annals of the Academy of Political and Social 

 Science at Philadelphia, for January, 1893, ex- 

 cept that in the latter certain paragraphs were 

 omitted to reduce its length. 



The new Ijotauy. 



ticience, xxi, New York, January 27, 1893, 

 pp. 43-44. 

 A jilea for tlie establishment of post-graduate 

 cluiirs in the leading American universities for 

 the stu<ly of Jjotany from all points of view, 

 especially from the paleontological side, for the 

 working out of the phylogeny of plants in 

 America. 



Notice of ''Additions to the Paleo- 

 botany of the Cretaceous Formation 

 on Staten Island, by Arthur Hollick; " 

 in Trans. X. Y. Acad. Sri., xiii, New 

 York, 1892, pp. 1-12, pis. i-iv. 



Am. iToifni. .S'ci., 3d series, XLV, Kow Haven, 

 May, 1893, p. 437. 



Notice of "The organization of the 



fossil plants of the coal measures, 

 Part XIX, by W. C. Williamson;" in 

 rUU. Trans. Boy. ASf>c., London, ci.xxxiv, 

 B, 1893, pp. 1-38, pis. i-ix. 



Am. Journ. Sd., 3d series, xi.v, Kcw Haven, 

 May. 1893, pp. 437-438. 



Notice of "^ Fossil plants as tests of 



climate," by A. C. Seward. London, 

 1892. 



Am,. Journ. Sci., 3d series, XLV, Kew Haven, 

 May, 1893, p. 438. 



Notice of " Flora Tertiaria Italica; 



anctoribus A. Meschinelli et x. Squin- 

 al)(d." Patavii, 1893. 



Am. Journ. Sci., 3d .series, xlv. New Ha\ en. 

 May, 1893, pp. 438-439. 



Notice of " The correlation of early 



Cretaceous floras in Canada and the 

 United States," by Sir William Daw- 

 .s(in ; in Trans. Boy. Sor. Canada, x, 

 i^ectiou IV, pp. 79-93. 



A'>n. Joitrn. Sci., 3d series, Xl.v, New Haven, 

 May, 1893, p. 439. 



Notice of "A new Ta»niopteroid fern 



and its allies," by David White, in 

 Hill]. (;eol. Sac. Am., iv, 1893. pp. 119- 

 132, pi. I. 



Am. Journ. Sci., 3d serii>s, xi.v, New Haven, 

 May, 1893, pp. 439-440. 



WARD, Lester F. Frost freaks of the 

 Dittany. 



Botan. Gaz., xvn, Bloomington, Ind., May, 

 1893, pp. 183-186, pi. XIX. 

 Describes remarkable forms of frost crystals 

 observed on plants of Gimila mariana, Decem- 

 ber 5, 1892, near Accotink, Va., with illustra- 

 tions. 



Dr. Newberry's work in Paleobotany. 



Trans. K. T. Acad. Sci., xn. New Tork, 

 May, 1893, pp. 162-163 

 Abstracted from a letter to Prof. H. L. Fair- 

 child, dated 1893. Embodied in a memoir of 

 Prof. John Strong Newberry, by Herman 

 LeRoy Fairchild. 



Note on fossil Cycads from South 



Dakota. 



Science, xxi, New York, June 30, 1893, p. 355. 

 Biief account of a collection of six fossil cy- 

 cadeau trunks, purchased b^- the U. S. National 

 Museum from owners near Hot Springs, S. 

 Dak., who found them on the surface of the 

 ground, overgrown with lichens. They were 

 very large, and exhibit certain peculiar anci 

 remarkable features. 



Discussion of a paper by Dr. E. A. 



Ross, entitled "A New Canon of Tax- 

 ation," read, August 24, 1892. at Chau- 

 tauqua, N. Y. 



Publications of the American Economical 



Association, vui. No. 1, 1893, pp. .50-51. 



Part of report of the Proc. Am. Economic 



Assoc. Fifth meeting. 



Emphasizes the imjiortance of considering 



the social as well as the fiscal eflect of a tax, 



and of giving to laws an attractive character, 



whereby the person taxed will be induced 



through interest to act for the good of society. 



WATKINS, Joseph Elfreth. The log 

 of the Sarannah. 



Bep. Smithsonian Inst. (U. S. Nat. Mus.), 

 1890 (1891), pp. 611-639, pis. CLI-CLVI. 



(Editor). Proceedings and Ad- 

 dresses. I Celebration | of the | Begin- 

 ning I of the I Second Century | of the 

 I American Patent System | at Wash- 

 ington City, D. C, I April 8, 9, and 10, 

 1891. I Published by the Executive 

 Committee | Washington, D. C : — Press 

 of Gedney & Roberts Co. | 1892. 



8 vo., pp. i-v (1) 1-554. 



Catalogue of the exhibit of the 



Pennsylvania Railroad Company at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition, pp. 



1-158. 



