TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



An act to provide for the publication of the reports and papers of the In- 

 diana Academy of Science 6 



An act for the protection of birds, their nests and eggs 8 



Officers, 1908-1909 9 



Committees, 1908-1909 10 



Principal officers since organization 11 



Constitution 12 



By-Laws 14 



Members and Fellows 15 



Members, non-resident 16 



Members, active 17 



Program of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting 22 



Report of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting 26 



Papers presented at the Twenty- fourth Annual Meeting: 



President's Address: Deforestation and Its Effects Among the Hills 



of Southern Indiana, by Glen Culbertson 27 



Work of the Pathological Laboratory of the Central Indiana Hospital 



for Insane, Indianapolis, by George F. Edenharter 39 



An Addition to the Birds of Indiana, by Amos Butler 49 



Biography and the Influence of Environment, by Robert Hessler. ... 51 

 Felkner Island, Wabee Lake, Kosciusko County, Indiana, by J. P. 



Dolan 67 



A Strange Nurse, by A. J. Bigney 69 



The Shake Dance of the Quilente Indians, with Drawing by an' Indian 



Pupil in the Indian School, by Albert B. Reagan 71 



Photographic Observations of Morehouse's Comet, by W. A. Cogshall . 75 



Field Observations on Rusts for the General Botanist, by J. C. Arthur. 83 



The Rust of Timothy, by F. D. Kern 85 



Notes on the Heteroecious Plant Rusts of Indiana, by Aaron G. 



Johnson 87 



Some Anomalies in the Female Gametophyte of Pinus, by D. M. 



Mottier 95 



