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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. III. No. 78. 



Dr. Johu K. Small read his aunounced paper : 

 ' Notes on the Flora of Yadkin Valley, N. C. ' 

 He spoke of the character of the Yadkin River 

 and the geology between Salisbury, N. C. , and 

 the district where the Yadkin becomes the great 

 Pedee. He discussed the great similarity of 

 Dunn's Mountain, N. C, and Stone Mountain, 

 Ga. , the fact strongly emphasized by the local 

 species common to both localities. He then 

 gave a running account of the general floral 

 features of the Yadkin Valley and summarized 

 the phenomena as follows: 



I. Several new species have lately been dis- 

 covered in that region, viz: Acer leucoderma. 

 Solidago Yadkinensis and Quercus PJiellos X=Q- 

 digitata. 



II. Several typical members of the prairie or 

 2}lains flora are perfectly at home there, as 

 Scutellaria campestris and Solidago radula. 



III. Plants thought to be confined to the 

 granite outcrop of Georgia are common, viz : 

 Arenaria brevifolia and Diamor2}Jia jnisilla. 



IV. AUeghenian or subalpine species as Wald- 

 steinia fragarioides and Anemone trifolia occur 

 there. 



V. One species, Lotus Helleri, is endemic. 



VI. A typically northern and very local 

 species Solidago PursMi reaches a greater de- 

 velopment, and is more abundant than else- 

 where. 



VII. A normally tropical species Portulaca 

 2}ilosa abounds in certain places. 



VIII. Generally local plants are represented 

 by Clematis ochrolejica, Verbena riparia, Oxalis 

 recurva and Aster ptarmicoides Oeorgianus. 



Remarks were made and a discussion followed 

 on the growth of plants in regions which for 

 long periods at a time are devoid of rain. 



A number of cut flowers of Arethusa bulbosa 

 were presented to the members by Miss Rachel 

 Farrington, of Lakewood, N. J. 



W. A. Bastedo, 

 Secretary pro tern. 



KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB. 



At the twelfth annual meeting, held at Snow 

 Hall on June 4th, the following program was 

 presented : 



On Hesperornis, S. W. Williston; The Groups of 



Motive in the Plane, H. B. Newson ; The IMotion of 

 a Semispberical Shell on a Horizontal Plane, A. 

 Emcb ; New Methods of Demonstration in Botany, 

 M. A. Barber; Theory of the Satellites of the Earth 

 and Mars, E.Miller; Stratigraphy of the Fort Ben- 

 ton, W. N. Logan; Construction and Use of an Inter- 

 ference Eefractometer, M. E. Eice; A New Species of 

 Sabre-toothed Cat, E. S. Riggs; On Double Sulfates, 

 H. P. Cady; Further Investigations regarding the 

 Constituents of the Dandelion Root, L. E. Sayre; 

 Analysis of a Gypsum from Marshall County, L. 

 Page; Analysis of House Paints, W. E. Mason and 

 E. L. McCoy ; Certain Principles in the Construction 

 of Disruptive Discbarge Coils, A. St.C. Dunstan; 

 Some Conditions Governing the Deposition of the 

 Lead and Zinc Ores in Southeast Kansas, E. Ha- 

 worth ; Variable Constitution of a Fresh Egg, James 

 Lear and L. E. Sayre; Comparative Cbaetotaxy of 

 Diptera, H. W. Menke; Analysis of 'Natural Plas- 

 ter ' from Eeno County, L. Page. 



NEW BOOKS. 



Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Eth- 

 nology. J. W. Powell. 1891-2. Washing- 

 ton, Government Printing Ofiice. 1896. Pp. 

 lix+462. 



Year Book of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, 1S93. Washington, Government 

 Printing Oflace. 1896. Pp. 656. 



Report of Work of Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tions of the University of Calif ornia f 01- the Year 

 1S94.-95. Sacramento. 1896. Pp. xii+481. 



Lehrbuch der vergleiehenden Mikroskopischen 

 Anatomie der Wirbeltiere. Albert Oppel. 

 Erster Tell. Der Mageu. Jena, Gustav 

 Fischer. 1896. Pp. viii-h543. 



Anleitung zur Microchemischen Analyse. H. Beh- 

 BENS. Heft III. Hamburg and Leipzig, 

 Leopold Voss. 1896. Pp. vii-f 135. 



Official Year Book of the Scientific and Learned 

 Societies of Ch-eat Britain and Ireland. Lon- 

 don, Charles GriflBu & Co., Lt'd, 1896. Pp. 

 iv+262. 7s. 2d. 



Long Life. Volume III. C. A. Stephens. 

 The Laboratory, Norway Lake, Maine. 

 1896. Pp. 218. 



The Oswego Normal Method of Teaching Geog- 

 raphy. Amos W. Farnham. Syracuse, N. 

 y., C. W. Bardeen. 1896. Pp, 127. 50 cts. 



