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Constitution of the Indiana Academy of Science 5 



By-laws of the Academy 7 



An Act to provide for the publication of the proceedings and papers of 



the Indiana Academy of Science 7 



An act for the protection of birds, their nests and eggs 9 



An act to protect migratory birds 10 



Officers of the Indiana Academy of Science for 1912-1913 11 



Members 14 



Minutes of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting 33 



Program of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting 39 



The water supply of Indiana, by H. E. Barnard 43 



The protection of our rivers from pollution, by Jay Craven 47 



Coniology, an abstract, by Robert Hessler 51 



Birds that destroy grapes, by Amos W. Butler 53 



A heronry near Indianapolis, by Amos W. Butler 57 



Further notes on Indiana birds, by Amos W. Butler 59 



Further notes of the seedless fruits of the common persimmon — Diospyros 



virginiana L., by David M. Mottier 67 



The mosses of Monroe County, by F. L. Pickett and Mildred Nothnag . . £9 



Length of life of Arisaema triphyllum corms, by F. L. Pickett 77 



Acetic alcohol as a killing and fixing agent in plant histology, by F. L. 



Pickett 79 



Plants not hitherto reported from Indiana, by Chas. C. Deam 81 



The influence of certain environic factors on the development of fern pro- 



thalia, by David M. Mottier 85 



Report of the work in corn pollination — IV, by M. L. Fisher 87 



Conjugation in Spirogyra, by F. M. Andrews 89 



An instructive modification of an old experiment, by Howard J. Banker. . 93 



Photosynthesis in submerged land plants by H. V. Heimberger 95 



Indiana fungi — III, by J. M. Van Hook 99 



Fungous enemies of the sweet potato in Indiana, by C. A. Ludwig 103 



Notes on some puff balls of Indiana, by Frank D. Kern 105 





