The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 



A. H. PATTERSON, President. *^ 



A. W. HOBBS, Vice-President. 



J. M. BELL, H. R. TOTTEN, 



Permanent Secretary. Recording Secretary. 



Editors or the Journal: 



W. C. COKER, Chairman. 

 J. M. BELL. COLLIER COBB. 



Journal op the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society — Quarterly. 

 Price $2.00 per year; single numbers, 50 cents. Most numbers of former 

 volumes can be supplied. Direct all correspondence to the Permanent 

 Secretary, at the University of North CarolLaa, Chapel Hill, N. C. 



In addition to original papers on scientific subjects this Journal pub- 

 lishes the Proceedings of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, and the 

 Proceedings of the North Carolina Academy of Science, as well as abstracts 

 of papers on scientific subjects published elsewhere by members of the Fac- 

 ulty of the University of North Carolina. 



Published for the Society 



by the 



University of North Carolina 



