TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Officers of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 2 



Membership of the Academy 4 



Program of Annual Meeting of 1922 : 7 



Papers: 



BIOLOGY 



I. Handedness and Speech. By Margaret M. Nice 10 



[I. A Note on the Relation of Heat and Moisture to the Behavior of 



the Texas Land Snail. By Ed. D. Crabb 10 



III. Observations on the Behavior of a Male Dickcissel, Spiza Ameri- 

 cans, During the Nesting Period. By Ed. D. Crabb - 11 



[V. A Preliminary Note on the Number of Tines in the Antlers of the 



White^Tail Deer as Correlated with Age. By Ed. D. Crabb 12 



V. The Genetic Evidence of a Multiple (Triple) Allelomorph System 

 in Bruchus and Its Relation to Sex-Limited Inheritance. By J. K. 

 Breitenbecher 11 



VI. The Migration Path of the Germ Cells in Fundulus. By A. 

 Richards and J. T. Thompson 15 



VII. The Nutritional Values of the Grain Sorghums. By Paul 

 Menaul . 16 



VIII. Identification of Anthoceros in the Oklahoma Cryptogamic 



Flora. By M. M. Wickham 19 



IX. Notes on the Migration of Macrochelys Lacertina. By M. M. 

 Wickham 20 



X. Further Notes on Migration of Terrapene Carolina in Oklahoma. 



By M. M. Wickham 22 



XL Identification of Fresh Water Sponges in the Oklahoma Fauna. 



By M. M. Wickham 23 



XII. Red and White Corpuscles and Catalase in the Blood of Com- 

 plement Deficient Guinea Pigs. By L. B. Nice, A. J. Neill and 



H. D. Moore 25 



XIII. The Egg-laying Habits and Early Development of Haminea 

 Virescens (Sby). By A. Richards 26 



XIV. The Acceleration of the Cleavage Rate of Haminea Virescens 

 (Shy). By A. Richards 27 



XV. A Third Christmas Bird Census. By Margaret M. Nice '. 31 



XVI. Fate of Leucocytes in the Placental Circulation. 



I. What Prevents Leucocytes of the Maternal Circulation from 



Migrating into the Fetal Circulation? 



II. The Role of the Syncytial Layer of the Chorionic Villi. 



III. Importance of this Investigation Relative to Inheritance of 

 Disease or Immunity frorn Disease. By Jos. M. Thuringer 33 



XVII. A new Differential Staining Method for Connective Tissue 

 Combined with the Ordinary Hematoxylin-eosin Stain. By Jos. M. 

 Thuringer 33 



XVIII. Effect of Lime and Organic Matter on the Root Development 

 and the Yield of Alfalfa on the So-called Hardpan Subsoils of 

 Oklahoma. By M. A. Beeson ^ 34 



XIX. Notes on the Parasite Fauna of Oklahoma. By John E. 

 Guberlet 36 



XX. A Preliminary Report on the Optic Tract of Eyeless Flies. By 

 Mildred H. Richards and Esther Y. Furrow 41 



XXI. Mitotic Index of the Chick. By Audrey Flitch Schultz 45 



XXII. Somatic Mutations and Elytral Mosaics in Bruchus. By J. K. 

 Breitenbecher 4S 



XXIII. A Preliminary Report on the Genetics of a Red-Spotted Sex 

 Limited Mutation in Bruchus. By C. Lee Furrow 49 



XXIV. A Preliminary Note on the Chromosome Number in the Sper- 

 matocytes of Bruchus. By Frank G. Brooks 52 



XXV. The Grand Period of Growth of Root-hairs. By R. E. Jeffs 53 



XXVI. Continuous Culture of Oats Versus Rotation. By H. S. Murphy 57 



XXVII. Sykes Alaskan Expedition of the University of Oklahoma of 



1921. By Ed. D. Crabb 61 



XXVIII. A Note on the Economic Status of the Bald Eagle in 

 Alaska. By Ed. D. Crabb 66 



XXIX. The Poisonous Substance in Cotton Seed. By Paul Menaul 6& 



XXX. The Chemistry of the Pecan. By W. G. Friedemann 71 



XXXI. Multiple Miliary Adenomata of the Kidney Cortex with Spe- 

 cial Reference to Histogenesis. By Mrs. Julia S. Eley 71 



