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Bay St. Louis, Miss., 1 alcoholic; Colmesneil, Tex., 3 alcoholic, 

 1 living - , 1 shell; Terrapene Carolina^ Raleigh, N. C, 7 alco- 

 holic and numerous living examples; Terrapene Major, Talla- 

 hassee, Fla.. 2 alcoholic; Riceboro, (ia., 1 alcoholic; Terra- 

 pene Bauri. Orlando, Fla., 4 living and 1 alcoholic; Hastings, 

 Fla., 7 alcoholic and 1 live specimen; Mimsville, Ga., 1 

 alcoholic. 



Poisining by Lepiota Morgani pk. F. L. Stevens, West 

 Raleigh. Read by W. C. Coker. (Abstract). 



Account is given of a personal experience with this fungus, 

 leaving no d^ubt that on some persons at least it produces an 

 extremely active toxic effect. The article will appear in the 

 Journal of Mycology. 



Chapel Hill Liverworts. W. C. Coker, Chapel Hill. 



This paper appears in full in next issue of this Journal. 



Notes on the Transformation of Some Large Moths. ( . S. 

 Brimley, Raleigh. 



A Simple Device for Illustrating the Periodic Law. Chas. 

 Baskerville. (Impel Hill. (Will be published in School 

 Science |. 



Action of Ultra-Violet Light upon Rare Earth Oxides. 

 Chas. Baskerz/ 7 le. (American Journal of Science, Dec. 1903.) 



The Effects on Rare Earth Oxides of Radium-barium Com- 

 pounds, and on the Production of Permanently Luminous 

 Compounds by Mixing the latter with Powdered Minerals. 

 Chas. Baskerville and Geo. F. Kunz. (Will appear in the 

 Am. J. Sci., Jan. 1904), 



Demonstration of the Parasite in Ankylostomiasis (Hook- 

 worm Disease;. W. S. Rankin, Wake Forest. 



Mendel's Contribution to a Theory of Heredity. W. L. 

 Poleat, Wake Forest. (Abstract). 



Gregor Johann Mendel ( 1822-1884) published in 1866 in an 

 obscure Austrian Journal a paper describing "Experiments in 

 Plant Hybridization." Professor Hugo de Vries, of Amster- 

 dam, who had taken up a similar line of work, brought the 

 paper out of its long hiding in 1900. Its importance was at 

 once apparent. The task which Mendel set himself was, to 



