298 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
MISSOURI. 
CoLuMBIA.— Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station: 
Bulletins: No. 34, April, 1896. Mamures and fertilizers, 35 pp.; 2 figs. 
No. 35, July, 1896. The wooly-aphis of the apple, 61 pp., several figures. 
No. 37, January, 1897. Texas fever, pp. 81-139; several figures. 
No. 38, April, 1897. Winter protection of the peach. Peach growing in Missouri, pp. 140- 
164, 6 figs. - 
No. 39, July, 1897. Influence of width of tire on draft of wagons, pp. 165-206; 14 figs. 
No. 40, October, 1897. The sugar-beet, 16 pp.; 1 fig. 
No. 41. The San Jose seale in Missouri, pp. 17-35; § figs. 
No, 42. A new orchard pest; the fringed-wing apple-bud moth, pp. 36-53; 10 figs. 
No, 43. Winter forcing of asparagus in the open field, and the asparagus culture for Mis- 
souri, pp. 54-68; 5 figs. 
JEFFERSON City.—Geological Survey of Missouri. Chas. R. Keyes, State Geologist: 
Missouri geological survey, 17x25 em., vol. X, 1896, physical features, by C. F. Marbut, 
533 pp.; 22 pll.; 24 figs. 
Vol. XI, 1896, clay deposits, by H. A. Wheeler, 622 pp.; 39 pll.; 15 figs. 
State Horticultural Society: 
Fortieth annual report of the State Horticultural Society, by L. A. Goodman, secretary, 
409 pp.; 6 pill. 
Str. Lovis.—Academy of Science of St. Louis: 
Transactions. Vol. VII. No.11l. Flexure of telescopes, by Milton Updegraff, pp. 243-272. 
No. 12. Geometrical properties of the lines of force, by Wm. H. Roever, pp. 273-298; 7 figs. 
No. 13. Results of double-star observations with the equatorial of the Morrison obser- 
vatory, by Henry S. Pritchett, pp. 299-312. 
ae 14. North American bees, descriptions and synonyms, by Charles Robertson, pp. 313- 
od. 
No. 15. Relations of the Devonian and Carboniferous in the upper Mississippi valley, 
by Charles R. Keyes, pp. 357-370. 
No. 16. Critical notes on the Muricidw, by Frank Collins Baker, pp. 371-392. 
No. 17. Plants collected in the district of Cienfuegos, province of Santa Clara, Cuba, in 
1895-"96, by Robert Combs, pp. 393-491; pll. xxx-xxxrx. 
No. 18. An unusual phyto-bezoar, by William Trelease, pp. 493-497; pl. xu. 
No. 19. A contribution to the herpetology of Missouri, by Julius Hurter, pp. 499-503. 
No. 20. Title-page, prefatory matter and index from July 1, 1894, to Dec. 31, 1897, pp. 
Ixxviii+505-518. 
Vol. VIII, No. 1. A method of measuring the pressure at any point on a structure due 
to wind blowing against that structure, by Francis E. Nipher, pp. 1-24; pl. 1 and 11. 
No. 2. The trees of St. Louis as influenced by the tornado of 1896, by Hermann von Shrenk, 
pp. 25-41; pll. m-rx. 
No. 3. New or little known North American bees, by Charles Robertson, pp. 43-54. 
No. 4. Ecological plant geography of Kansas, by A. S. Hitchcock, pp. 55-69. 
fhe 5. The molluscan fauna of western New York, by Frank Collins Baker, pp. 71-94; 
pl. x. 
No. 6. The efficiency of gearing under friction, by Calvin M. Woodward, pp. 95-105. 
Mercantile Library Association: 
Fifty-second annual report, 1897, 79 pp. 
Missouri Botanical Garden, Wm. Trelease, Director: 
North American Lemnacer, by Charles Henry Thompson, 22 pp., 4 pll. : 
J. B.S. Norton, Author: 
Coloring matter of Borraginacew, and herbarium notes, by J. B. S. Norton, pp. 149-157; 
pli. xLvI-L. 
MONTANA 
BozeEMAn.—J. W. Blankinship: ' 
A precise criterion of species. I. The general method, by C. B. Davenport, pp. 1-6. 
II. Specific vs. individual characters, by J. W. Blankinship, pp. 6-10. 
NEBRASKA. 
Lincotn.— University of Nebraska, Agricultural Experiment Station: 
Bulletins: No. 44, Experiments in the culture of the sugar-beet in Nebraska, by H. H. 
Nicholson and T. L. Lyon, pp. 109-125. 
No. 45. The rainfall of Nebraska, by G. D. Swezey and Geo. A. Loveland, pp. 129-177. 
