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PEBEUAEY 3, 1893. 



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Contents. 



Some Insect Immigeants in Ohio. F. M. 



Webster 57 



A Skeleton op Steller's Sea-Cow. Barton 



W. Evermann 59 



Plant Diseases, Caused by Nematoid Worms 



OF THE GeNCS ApHELENOHUS BaST. I. J. 



Rifzema Bos 59 



Buried Alive — One's Sensations and Thoughts. 



Warren K. Moorehead 61 



Notes and News 61 



The Eelation of Alimentation to some Dis- 

 eases. James Wood 62 



Snow-Rollers. E. W. Claypole 64 



Letters to the Editor. 



Some Detailed Evidence of an Ice-Age Man 



in Eastern America. Q. Frederick Wright. 65 

 PalaBOlithic Man in North America. Henry 



W. Eaynes 66 



Criticism of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



S.A.Miller 67 



Monument to Hirn. R. H. Thurston 68 



"Breathing Wells" in Missouri. J.E.Todd. 69 



Book Reviews. 



People of Finland in Archaic Times 69 



Amono the Publishers 69 



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