BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 713 



Lester F. Ward. Evolution in the vegetable kingdom. 



American Naturalist, xix, July, August, 1885, pp. 537-614 ; 715-753. 



This article discusses the progress that has beeu made in our knowledge of the laws of devel- 

 opment in the vegetable kingdom, considering the subject from the three-fold point of 

 view : its chronological, geological, and botanical history. The second and third parts of 

 the paper are the same as read at the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence at Philadelphia, September 8, 1884. The first part is an expansion of the correspond- 

 ing portion of that paper. 

 Lester F. Ward. Historical view of the fossil flora of the globe. Geologioal view 

 of the fossil flora of the globe. Botanical view of the fossil tiora of the globe. 

 Proc. Amer. Assn. Adv. Sci., xxxm, September, 1884, pp. 493-497. 

 Abstract of papers read before section F, September 8, 1884. 

 Lester F. Ward. A convenient system of river nomenclature. 

 Science, VI, October 9, 1885, pp. 321-322. 



Suggests the giving of monosyllabic names to the tributaries of rivers and of combining 

 these to form the names of the streams which the tributaries unite to form, after the 

 analogy of the Mattapony in Virginia. 

 Lester F. Ward. Moral and material progress contrasted. 



Transactions of the Anthropological Society, ill, 1884-1885, pp. 121-130 (136). 

 An argument for conscious activity on the part of society in seeking its own welfare, by 

 showing that the moral condition of mankind has not kept pace with material progress in 

 which such conscious activity has been exercised by individuals. 

 Lester F. Ward. An example iu political science. 

 The Daily Telegraph (New York), November 3, 1885, p. 4. 

 A scientific treatment of the tariff question. 

 Lester F. Ward. Mind as a social factor (Abstract). 



Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, ill, 1885, pp. 31-32. 

 Tbe paper was published iu full in Mind (London), ix, October, 1884, pp. 563-573, and is 

 mentioned above under that date. 

 Lester F. Ward. Remarks on Mr. H. H. Bates's paper on " Discontinuities in 

 Nature's Methods." 



Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, in, 1885, pp. 53-54. 

 Welcomes the introduction of the physical term discontinuities into biology in the sense given 

 to it by Mr. Bates, i. e., not implying actual breaks in the series, and offers additional 

 examples. 

 Lester F. Ward. Remarks on Prof. J. M. Gregory's paper on the "Elements of 

 Modern Civilization." 



Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, in, 1885, pp. 63-64. 

 Approves che classification of social activities proposed by Professor Gregory, and shows that it 

 is substantially the same as that elaborated by the speaker and published three years 

 before ( Science, October 23, 18S0, pp. 210, 211), and then in press as part of Chapter vn of 

 his forthcoming work on dynamic sociology. 

 Lester F. Ward. A National University. 

 Science, VI, December 18, 1885, p. 539. 



Letter approving Secretary Lamar's recommendation of the establishment of such an institu- 

 tion by the Government at Washington. 

 Lester F. Ward. Administrative Report of the Chief of the Division of Paleobot- 

 any, U. S. Geological Survey, for the year ending June 30, 1884. 

 Report of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1883-1884, pp. 55-59. 

 Lester F. Ward. Sketch of Paleobotany. 



Report of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1883-1884, pp. 357-452. PI. LVI-lviii. 



Gives an historical review of paleobotanical discovery with profuse bibliographical references, 

 a sketch of the history of paleobotany down to the year 1850, an account of the present 

 state of the science, remarks on the nomenclature of fossil plants, a review of the prog- 

 ress toward a natural method of botanical classification, especially as indicated by pal- 

 eophytology, and a geognostico-botanical view of the plant life of the globe, past and 

 present, illustrated by a tabular exhibit and three diagrams, ono of which is colored. 

 Lester F. Ward. Notes on the flora of Eastern Virginia. 

 Botanical Gazette, xi, February, 1886, pp. 32-38. 



The more striking changes that occur in the flora on traveling southward from Washington, 

 D. C, to Weldon, N. C, are pointed out and commented upon. 

 Lester F. Ward. Moral and material progress. 

 The Capital (Washington), March 28, 1886, p. 4. 

 Abstract of the paper above noticed on moral and material progress contrasted. 



