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Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 



WILUAM deB. MacNIDER, President 

 ARCHIBALD HENDERSON. Vice-President 

 K. A. HALL, Recording Sec. F. P. VENABLE, Perm. Sec. 



Editors of the Journal : 



W. C. COKER 



J. M. BELL, - A. H. PATTERSON 



CONTENTS 



Vi.-nn. Ki)i,\os or the Eleventh Annual Meeting of 



I ME I^OETII CaEOLINA AcADEMY OF SciENCE . ... 45 



Zoology in America, Befoee the Peesent Period — 



B. V. Wilson 54 



^XOTE ON THE FUNDAMENTAL BaSES OF DYNAMICS Wm. 



(Jain 68 



]\'0TES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE MoRE CoMMON 



Bivalves of Beaufort, JST. C. — Henry D. Aller. ... 76 

 Tin: Gloomy Scale an Enemy of Shade Trees — Z. P. 



Metcrdf 88 



(,'ArTURE OF Raleigh by the Wharf Eat— C. S. Brimley 92 

 Viable Bermuda Grass Seed Produced in the Local- 

 ity OF Ealeigh, N". C. — 0. I. Tillman 95 



Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society — Quarterly. Price 

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