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sap 4 Wesser — Appendix to the Catalogue of the Flora of 
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Epmunp A. Encrer—A Geometrical Construction for finding 
the Foci of the Section of a Cone of Revolution............ 
ArtHurR Winstow — The Mapping of Missouri 57 
CuarLes Ropertson — Flowers and Insects — Labiatae.......... 101 
A. S. Hircncocxk — The Opening of the Buds of some Woody 
Plants 133 
XK Curistian Bay — Materials for a Monograph on Inuline...... 151 
W. Townsend Porter — The Physical Basis of Precocity and 
Dullness 162 
Epuunp A. Encter — Geometrical Construction for Cutting 
from a Cone of Revolution Plane Sections. 183 
L. H. Pammet— Sclerotinia Libertiana, Fuckel, with a Biblio- 
graphy of Fungus Root Diseases 191 
Wma. Townsend Porter — The Relation between the Growth of 
Children and their Deviation from the Physical Type of 
their Sex and Age 233 
JuLius Hurter — Catalogue of Reptiles and Batrachians found 
in the Vicinity of St. Louis, Mo 251 
W. Townsenp Porter — The Growth of St. Louis Children...... 263 
N. M. Gratretter — A Study of the Relations of Sélix Nigra 
/ and 8. Amygdaloids, together with the Hybrids arising from 
them as these Species Exhibit Themselves in the Vicinity « 
St. Louis 427 
CHartes Rosertson — Flowers and Insects— Rosaceae and 
Compositae 435 
Mitton Upprecrarr — Determinations of the Latitude, Longi- 
tude and Height above Sea Level of the Laws Observatory 
of the University of the State of Missouri, containing a 
Description of the Building and Principal Instruments.....°481 
Epwarp C. Rune — Merycism Regarded in the Light of Atavic — 
tendeney — Report of a New Case with Results of an Inves- 
tigation of its Digestive Chemism 544 
ALLERTON S. Cosmman — The Post-Mortem Detection and Esti- 
mation 0 'y 587 
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