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Missouri. G. Frederick Wright, Remarks upon a supposed glaciated 
stone axe from Indiana. T. C. Chamberlin, Pseudo-cols. T. C. Cham- 
berlin and Frank Leverett, Certain features of the past drainage 
systems of the upper Ohio basin. G. Frederick Wright, Glacial his- 
tory of western Pennsylvania. F. B. Taylor, the ancient strait at 
Nipissing. Edward H. Williams, Extramoraine drift between the 
Delaware and the Schuylkill. Professor Dr. Alfred Teutzsch, Königs- 
berg, Prussia, Interglacial series of Germany. Warren Upham, the 
Madison type of drumlins. Warren Upham, Diversity of the glacial 
drift along its boundary. E.O. Hovey, Notes on the microscopic 
structure of siliceous odlite. 
ĪNDIANA ACADEMY oF ScreNcr.—The Ninth Annual Meeting was ` 
held at Indianapolis, December 28 and 28, 1893, when the following 
papers relating to Natural History were read and discussed: 
An Alphabetical and Synonymical Catalogue of the Acridide of the 
United States, W. S. Blatchley. On the Hibernation of Turtles, A. 
W. Butler. Some Notes on a Variety of Solanum dulcama, R. Wes. 
McBride, Work of the Botanical Division of the Natural History 
Survey of Minnesota, D. T. MacDougal. Indiana Fishes, C. H. Eig- 
enmann. The Fishes of Wabash County, A. B. Ulrey. Review of 
Botanical Work in Indiana with Bibliography, L. M. Underwood. 
Notes on an Imbedding Material, John S. Wright. Recent Notes on 
Indiana Birds, A. W. Butler. The Distribution of Indiana Birds, A. 
W. Butler. On the Occurence of the Rarest of the Warblers (Den- 
droica kirtlandii) in Indiana, A. B. Ulrey. Histology of the Ponte- 
deriaceæ, E. W. Olive. Growth in Length and Thickness of the 
Petiole of Richardia, Katherine E. Golden. The Geographical and 
Hypsometrical Distribution of North American Viviparide, R. Ells- 
worth Call. The Effect of Light on the Germinating Spores of Marine 
Alge, Melvin A. Brannon. Notes on Saprolegnia, George L. Roberts. 
Contributions to the Life-History of Notothylas, D. M. Mottier. 
Some South American Characinide, with Six New Species, A. B. Ulrey. 
Should the Study of Natural Science in the Lower Classes of the 
Public Schools be Encouraged, W. W. Norman. The Detection of 
Strychnine in an Exhumed Human Body, W. A. Noyes. Absorption 
of Poisons by Animal Tissue After Death, P. S. Baker. Induration 
of Certain Tertiary Rocks in North-Eastern Arkansas, R. Ellsworth 
Call. The White Clays of Southern Indiana, A. W. Butler. The 
Effect of Environment on the Mass of Local Species, C. H. Eigen- 
mann. The Ash of Trees, Mason B. Thomas. Poisonous Influence 
