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work is the absence of any real table of contents, the result being 
that it is very difficult to refer to the papers. Aside from this the 
volume is up to its usual standard. Among the more important 
papers within the scope of our pages are the following: one by Mr. 
Call upon the maps of Mammoth Cave, from which we learn that no 
really accurate map of the cave exists, the reason probably being 
that the owners are afraid that some one will tap their property and 
force them to divide the enormous admission price charged. Pro- 
fessor Burrage tells us that the water supply of Lafayette has been 
affected by Uroglena. Messrs. Hessler, Blatchley, Chipman, S. 
Coulter, Arthur, and Snyder give lists of additions to the flora of the 
state, and Miss Cunningham revises the species of Plantago of the 
United States. Miss Cunningham has studied the effects of drought 
upon the tissues of several cultivated plants, while M. B. Thomas 
repeats well-known statements regarding periodicity of root pressure. 
Messrs. Bitting and Davis have studied the bacteria of stables, and 
Miss Golden concludes that common yeasts have little or no path- 
ogenic properties. 
In the zoological field Mr. Rittger gives in outline a study of a 
digenic trematode found in pond snails and artificially fed to ducks, 
in which the adult condition was obtained. Mr. Butler adds to the 
list of Indiana birds and gives a detailed account of the bobolink 
within the state. Mr. Call gives an account of the aquatic mollusca 
of the state, and their relations to the river basins; 195 species are 
enumerated, and of these 130 are reported from the Wabash basin 
and 127 from the Ohio. B. M. Davis gives a poorly arranged, but 
nearly complete, bibliography of the pineal structures. Dr. J. R. 
Slonaker presents an abstract of his paper on the fovea of the eye, 
printed in full in the Journal of Morphology. 
The study of the lakes, so prominent in other volumes of these 
proceedings, is largely ignored in the present volume, while geology 
and archeology are represented by but few papers. Dr. Moore gives 
an account, with a plate, of the Randolph County mastodon, now in 
the possession of Earlham College. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
The Races of Europe.— Dr. J. Deniker, in the Bulletin of the 
Society of Anthropology of Paris, presents a “second preliminary 
1 Les race de l’ Europe, tome viii, No. 4, p. 291. 
