VOL. V. JANUARY-MARCH, 1918 NO. 7. 8. 



amKFcan MIDLAND 

 NATURALIST 



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Published by the University of Notre Dame, 

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CONTENTS 



The Genus Euthamia in Missouri Benjamin Franklin Bush 157 

 Distribution of Our Birds in the Spring of 191 7 



Brother Alphonsus, C. S. C. 17$ 

 The Collecting, Drying and Mounting of Plant Specimens 



J. Lunell 191 

 The Invasion of a Missouri River Alluvial Flood Plain 



Herbert C Hanson 196 

 Plants of Blue Rapids and Manhattan, Kansas 0. A. Stevens 201 



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