BULLETIN OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 

 NEW SERIES No. W OCTOBER. 1911 



IN THE SERIES OF RESEARCH BULLETINS OF THE UNIVERSITY 



CONTRIBUTIONS 



FEOM THE 



LABOEATOEIES OF XATUBAL HISTOEY 



OF 



THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 



EDITORIAL STAFF »,..l>V 



Samuel Calvin Geology ^ 



Thomas H. Macbride Botany b* »'' * "^ * 



Charles C. Nuttinu Zoology UA****^ 



VOLUME VI number A S^ 



1. A list of the Coleoptera of Iowa 



H. F. WICKHAM 



2. Iowa Discomycetes 



Fred J. Sea\"er 



3. A fossil burrowing sponge from the Iowa Devonian 



A. O. Thomas 



4. The prairies 



B. Shimek 



PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 

 IOWA CITY. IOWA 



Issued Twexty-Oxe Times Durixo the Academic Year: Moxthlt From October 

 TO Jaxuary. Weekly from February to June. Entered at the 

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