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ary Schools — What Should he Taught? How Much and Howf The pro- 

 gram was completed at 4 p. m. and the Academy adjourned. 



PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MICHIGAN 

 ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, MARCH 31, APRIL 1 AND 2, 1S97. 



1. Black Plague. ^■ietOl• C. Vaughan, M. D., Ann Arbor. Published in Apple- 

 ton's Popular Science Monthly, May, 1897. 



2. Notes and Observations regarding the Habits and Characteristics of the 

 Massasauga, t<istrurns catenatus. during captivity. Percy ,S. Selous, Greenville. 

 Published in Bull, de la Soc. Zool. de France, XXII, pp. l.o7-161 (1897). Reprinted 

 in full in present report. 



3. Newton's Third Law as a Factor in Organic Evolution. Manly Miles, M. D., 

 Lansing. Printed in full in present report. 



4. An Ascent of Mt. Ranier. Illustrated Lecture by Professor Israel C. Russell. 



5. Comments on the Nature of the M^ork suited to a Botanical Club of an Agri- 

 cultural College. Wm. J. Beal, Ph. D., Agricultural College. Printed in pres- 

 ent report under the title "Suitable Topics for Discussion by Young Members of a 

 Botanical Club." 



6. The Mechanism of Root Curvature. James B. Pollock. Ann Arbor. 



7. Remarks concerning the Saprophytic Fungi grown in the Vicinity of the 

 Agricultural College. B. O. Longyear, Agricultural College. Published in pan 

 in Report State Board of Agriculture for 1897, p. 48. Reprinted in this report. 



8. The Russian Thistle and Tumbling Mustard in Michigan. C. F. Wheeler. 

 Agricultural College. Mostly included in the paper entitled "Additions to tlie 

 Flora of Michigan," Rej). State Board of Agr. for 1898. pp. 82-91. 



9. Early Stages in the Development of the Pollen in Ascleinas cormiti. Fanny 

 E. Langdon, Ann Arbor. 



10. A Remarkable Forest in Michigan, not Hitherto Known. S. Alexander. 

 Birmingham. Abstract printed in this report. 



11. Some Alpena County Plants Observed in lS9ti. C. F. Wheeler. Unpublished. 



12. Notes on Michigan Mollusca. Bryant Walker, Detroit. Not published. 



13. The Shells of the Quaternary Deposits in Huron County. Alfred C. Lane. 

 Houghton, and Bryant Walker, Detroit. To be published in forthcoming report of 

 the Geol. Survey of ilichigan. 



14. Deinonstration of an Apparatus for Mechanically Passing Objects througli 

 Fluids of Different Densities. D. C. Worcester, Ann Arbor. 



15. The Structure of the Olfactory Lobe of the Sturgeon. J. B. Johnston, Ann 

 Arbor. Published in Zoological Bulletin (Ginn iV: Co.) \o\. 1, No. 5 (1898), pp. 221- 

 241. Abstract or summar.y printed in this repoi't. 



It). The Peripheral Nervous System of Ar/v/.s- rirciis. Fanny E. Langdon, Ann 

 Arbor. 



17. On the Fertilization of the Eggs of Viiio nuiiphinata. F. R. Lillie, Ann Ar- 

 bor. Abstract in "Science," March 5, 1897, new series, Vol. V, pp. 389-390. 



18. Poisohous Germs found in Drinking- Water. J. McClymonds, M. D . / nn 

 Art or. Abstract i)rin ted in this report. 



19. Poisonous CJerms fotmd in Foods. Miss A. Brown, Ann Arbor. 



20. Distinctions between the Typhoid and Colon Bacilli. G. D. Perkins, M. D., 

 St. Paul, Minn. 



21. Antitoxins. E. M. Houghton, M. D., Detroit. 



22. Results from the use of Antitoxin. Frederick G. Novy. M. D., Ann Arbor. 



23. Some Vital Statistics of Michigan. Cressy L. Wilbur, M. D., Lansing. 

 Printed in full in this report. 



24. Observations on toe Methods of IMsii-ibution of the Seeds of some Michigan 

 Trees. Dr. W. J. Beal, Agricultural Collesre. Published under the title "Seed Dis- 

 persal," by Ginn & Co., Boston. 1898. 



2.5. The Geographical Distribution of liife in Michigan. Walter B. Barrows, 

 Agricultural College. Unpublished. 



26. The Relation of the Academy to the Elementary Schools. Address of the 

 retiring president. Professor W. H. Scherzer, Ypsilanti. Not published. 



27. Notes on the Flora of Huron County. Clias. A. Davis, Alma. To be pub- 

 lished in forthcoming bulletin of Geol. Survey of Michigan. 



28. The Evening Grosbeak in Central Michigan. Chas. A. Davis. Printed in 

 this report. 



