340 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Theo. B. Comstock : Crystalline rocks of Central Texas. Geology of the 

 Wichita Mountains, Indian Territory. Silurian system and its geanticline in Cen- 

 tral Texas and Indian Territory. 



P. H. Van der Weyde : Glacial action considered as a continuous phenome- 

 non, having shifted from one locality to another. 



R. T. Hill and James S. Stone : Geology of Indian Territory south of Cana- 

 dian river. 



N. H. Winchell: "What constitutes the Taconic mountains? 



James M. Safford: The formations and artesian wells of Memphis, Tenn. 



T. C. Chamberlin: Progress in morainic mapping. 



Arthur Winslow: Remarks on construction of topographic maps for geologic 

 reports. Occurrence of pegmatite in Central Missouri. 



Edward Orton : Amount of natural gas used iu glass manufacture. 



J. E. Siebel : Differentiation of subterranean water supplies. 



C. W. Hall : Some of the qualifying conditions of successful artesian well 

 boring in the northwestern States. A notable dike in the Minnesota River 

 Valley. 



T.' C. Hopkins : Topographic features of Arkansas marbles. 



R. A. P. Penrose, Jr.: The origin of the manganese ores of Northern Arkan- 

 sas and its effect on the associated strata. 



L. S. Griswold : The Novaculites of Arkansas. 



E. W. Clatpole : Subsidence and deposition as cause and effect. 



H. E. Pickett and E. W. Clatpole: The recent explosion of natural gas in 

 Shelby county, Ind. 



0. A. Derby : The Bemdego (Brazil) meteorite. New method of searching for 

 rare elements in rocks. Genesis of certain magnetites. Nepheline-bearing rocks 

 in Brazil. 



Section F. Biology. 



Sereno Watson : Relation of the Mexican flora to that of the United States. 



J. M. Coulter: Distribution of the North American Umbelliferae. Distribu- 

 tion of North American Cornacea-. 



Stanley Coulter: Forest trees of Indiana. 



J. N. Rose : Notes upon plants collected by Dr. Ed. Palmer at La Paz, Lower 

 California, in 1890. 



W. P. Wilson : The development and function of the so-called cypress- 

 " knees," with a consideration of the natural habitat of the tree. 



H. L. Bollet : Potato scab, a bacterial disease. 



N. L. Britton: Preliminary note on the genus Rhynchospora in North America. 

 Rusbya, a new genus of Vacciniaceas from Bolivia. Notes on a monograph of 

 the genus Lechea. The general distribution of North American plants. 



Burt G. Wilder: Lack of the distance sense in the prairie dog. Exhibition 

 of diagrams illustrating the formation of the human sylvian fissure. 



G. S. Hopkins: Structure of the stomach of Amia calva. 



T. B. Spence : Support for the Chorda tympani nerve in Felida?. 



Herbert Osborn: External termination of the urethra in the female of Geomys 

 Bursorius. 



F. V. Coville : Work of the botanical division of the department of Agriculture. 

 C. S. Min'OT: Account of the marine biological laboratory at Wood's Holl. 



Differentiation of the primitive segments in vertebrates. Morphology of the 

 blood corpuscles. Disappearance of the Decidua refiexa. 



A. J. Cook : Pood of bees. 



C. L. Herrick: A case of morbid affection of the eye in a cat. 



B. T. Galloway : Life history of Uncinula spiralis. Preliminary notes on a 

 new and destructive oat disease. 



Theobald Smith : Variability of disease-germs. 



Simon H. Gage and H. W. Norris: Notes on the amphibia of Ithaca. 



Simon H. Gage and Susanna P. Gage : Changes in the ciliated areas of the 

 alimentary canal of the Amphibia during development, and relation to the mode of 

 respiration. 



