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mosphere of hydrogen or nitrogen, entirely de- 

 void of oxygen, it will give off carbon dioxide as 

 in the ordinary air. If it is asked, ' How can 

 these things be I ' the answer is : ' The living mat- 

 ter takes the oxygen and makes it an integral 

 part of itself, as it does the carbon and nitrogen 

 and other elements; and when, finally, energy is 

 liberated, the oxidation occurs and the carbon di- 

 oxide appears as a waste product.' " 



The question of dividing this section into one 

 of zoology and one of botany was discussed, and 

 the association thereafter adopted a resolution 

 dividing the section into Section F, on zoology, 

 and Section G, on botany. 



" Notes on Eanunculus Rcpens and its Eastern 

 North American Allies " and " Notes on a Mono- 



fraph of the North American Species of Leopedeza," 

 y Nathaniel L. Britton ; " Contribution on the Di- 

 gestive Tract of Some North American Ganoids," by 

 Grant S. Hopkins ; " Adaptation of Seeds to Facilitate 

 Germination " and " The Root System of Mikania 

 Scandens L." by W. W. Rowlee ; " The " Maxillary 

 Tentacles' of Pronuba." by John B. Smith; "Pre- 

 liminary Comparison of the Hepatic Flora of Boreal 

 and Sub-boreal Regions," by L. M. Dnderwood ; " On 

 the Value of Wood Ashes in the Treatment of Peach 

 Yellows " and " On the Value of Superphosphates 

 and Muriate of Potash in the Treatment of Peach 

 Yellows," by Edgar F. Smith ; " Notes on Maize," 

 by George Macloski ; " Spikes of Wheat bearing Ab- 

 normal Spikelets " and " A Study of the Relative 

 Lengths of the Sheaths and Internodes of Grasses for 

 the Purpose of determining to what Extent this is a 

 Reliable Specific Character," by William J. Beal ; 

 " Report of Biological Section of the Committee on 

 the Naples Table," by Charles W. Stiles ; " Bacterio- 

 logical Irrvestigations of Marine Waters and the Sea 

 Floor " and " Non-parasitic Bacteria in Vegetable 

 Tissue," by H. L. Russell ; " Sketch of the Flora of 

 Death Valley, California," by Frederick V. Coville; 

 " Notes on Yellow Pitch-pine Pinis rigida Mill. var. 

 Lutea Kell. n. v." and " Germination at Intervals of 

 Seed treated with Fungicides," by William A. Keller- 

 man ; " The Fertilization of Pear Flowers," bv M. B. 

 Waite ; " On the Adult Cestodes of Cattle and Sheep," 

 by Charles W. Stiles; "The Fertilization of the Fig, 

 and Capritication," by C. V. Riley ; " On a New Form 

 of Marsupialia from the Laramie Formation," by 

 Edward D. Cope ; " The Proposed Columbus Bio- 

 logical Stations in Jamaica" and "An Interesting Case 

 of Parasitism," by Albert PI. Tuttle ; " A Compara- 

 tive Study of the Roots of Ranunculacia?," by F. B. 

 Maxwell ; " Do Termites cultivate Fungi? " bv Orator 

 F. Cook ; " Note on the Appearance of two Embryo 

 Chicks in a Single Blastoderm," by Robert O. 

 Moody ; " Notes on some Fresh-water Mollusks," by 

 William M. Beauchamp ; " The Conditions which de- 

 termine the Distribution of Bacteria in the Water of 

 Rivers," byJ. H. Stoller ;" Adaptation of Plants to 

 External Environment," by William P. Wilson; 

 " Notes on Self-pollination of the Grape," by Spencer 

 A. Beach ; " The Comparative Influence of Odor and 

 Color in attracting Insects," by George B. Sud worth ; 

 "Biological Notes on Fauna of Cold Spring Harbor " 

 and " Notes on Dancus Carota," by Charles W. Har- 

 gitt ; " A Preliminary Account of the Brain of Di- 

 emyctylus Viridescens based upon Sections made 

 through the Entire Head," by Simon P. Gage ; " Geo- 

 graphic Relationship of the Flora of the High Sierra 

 Nevada-California," by Frederick V. Covilie^ " Va- 

 riation in Native Ferns," by William M. Beauchamp; 

 " Live-forever eradicated by a Fungous Disease," 

 by David G. Fairchild ; "Otto Kunze's Changes in 

 Nomenclature of North American Grasses," by George 

 Vasey ; " Revised Nomenclature of the Arborescent 

 Floraof the United States," by Bernhard E.Fcrnow and 

 Geonje B. Sudworth ; " On Carphoxera Ptelearia, the 

 New Herbarium Pest," by C. V. Riley; " The Insect 

 Fauna of the Mississippi Bottoms," by Howard E. 



Weed ; " Characteristics and Adaptations of Desert 

 Vegetation," by Frederick V. Coville ; " Shrinkage of 

 Wood as observed under the Microscope," by Filibert 

 Roth ; " Peziza Sclerotium " and " Temperature and 

 Some of its Relations to Plant Life," by L. H. Pam- 

 mel ; " Pleospora of Tropseolum Majus," " Secondary 

 Spores of Anthracnoses " and " A Bacterium of Pha- 

 seolus," by Byron D. Halsted ; " The Significance 

 of Cleislogamy," by T. Meehan ; " The Animal Para- 

 sites of Dogs," by E. W. Doran ; " A Preliminary 

 Note on the Anatomy of the Urodela Brain as Exem- 

 plified by Desmognothus Fusca," by Pierre A. Fish ; 

 " How the Application of Hot Water to Seed increases 

 the Yield," by John C. Arthur ; " Heredity of Ac- 

 quired Characters," by Manly Miles ; " The Produc- 

 tion of Immunity in Guinea Pigs from Hog Cholera 

 by the Use of Blood Serum from Immunized Ani- 

 mals," by Emil A. de Schweinitz ; " On the Sup- 

 posed Correlation of Quality in Fruits a Study in 

 Evolution," by Liberty II. Bailey ; and " The Descent 

 of the Lepidoptera, an Application of the Theory of 

 Natural Selection to Toxonomy," by John H. Comstock. 



H. Anthropology. The presiding officer of this 

 section was William H. Holmes, of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology, Washington, D. C., who delivered 

 his vice-presidential address on " Evolution of 

 the ^Esthetic." Turning from the more sub- 

 stantial if not more practical elements of human 

 life, he glanced into the study of the polite arts 

 of man, a comparatively new field, turning " to 

 the flowers of thought, to the realm of the aes- 

 thetic, to that strange land of the imagination 

 where nothing is seen but for the pleasure of see- 

 ing, where nothing is heard but for the pleasure 

 of hearing, and where nothing is thought but for 

 the pleasure of thinking." After drawing n 

 dreary picture of what life would be without per- 

 ceptions of the beautiful, the speaker showed 

 that creations of art are growths as are the prod- 

 ucts of nature, and are subject to the same in- 

 exorable laws of genesis and evolution. The 

 several branches of aesthetic art were considered, 

 painting, architecture, sculpture, music, poetry, 

 drama, and romance being reviewed in the order 

 named, their growth and evolution in relation to 

 the development of man being illustrated by 

 large diagrams. 



" River Pebbles chipped by Modern Indians, as an 

 Aid to the Study.of the Trenton Gravel Implements," 

 by H. C. Mercer; "A Few Psychological Inquiries," 

 by Laura Osborne Talbott ; " On Some Remains from 

 the Oldest River Gravels along the White Water 

 River," " On the Earthworks near Anderson, Ind.," 

 " Some Indian Camping Sites near Brookville, Ind.," 

 and " On Some Prehistoric Objects from the White 

 Water Valley," by Amos W. Butler ; " The Early Re- 

 ligion of the Iroqupis " and " Early Indian Forts in 

 New York," by William M. Beauchamp ; " Ancient 

 Earthworks in Ontario " and " Evidences of Prehis- 

 toric Trade in Ontario," by Charles A. Hirschfelder ; 

 " Explorations on the Main Structure of Copan, Hon- 

 duras " and " Vandalism among the Antiquities of 

 Yucatan and Central America," by Marshall H. 

 Saville ; " The Department of Ethnology of the 

 World's Columbian Exposition," and " Exhibition of 

 a Large Model of the Serpent Mound of Adams 

 County, Ohio," by Frederick W. Putnam ; " Involun- 

 tary Movements," by Joseph Jastrow ; " Tusayan 

 Legends of the Snake and Flute People," by Matilda 

 C. Stevenson ; " A Skull of a Pig having a Flint Ar- 

 row Head imbedded in the Bone," by^ Ed ward W. 

 Claypole : " Primitive Number System," by Levi 

 L. Conant ; " Comparative Chronology," by W J 

 McGee ; " Brief Remarks upon the Alphabet of 

 Landa," by Hilborne T. Cresson ; "The Peabody 

 Museum Honduras Expedition," by Frederick W. 

 Putnam; " Aboriginal Quarries of F-lakable Stone, 



