

CONTENTS. 



A Descriptive Catalogue of the Mammals of North Carolina, Exclu- 

 sive of the Cetacea. — C. S. Brimley 1 



The Methyl Group in Certain Lignocelluloses." — A. S. Wheeler 33 



The Sponges of the "Albatross" 1891 Expedition.—//. V. Wilson 35 



The Atomic Weight of Thorium.— R. 0. E. Davis 45 



Proceedings N. O. Academy of Science 57 



The Science of Plant Pathology.— F. L. Stevens 61 



A Memoir on the Twenty- Seven Lines Upon a Cubic Surface. — 



Archibald Henderson 76 



Molecular Attraction, IV., on Biot's Formula for Vapor Pressure 



and Some Relations at the Critical Temperature. — J. E. Mills 88 



Proceedings of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 103 



Some Problems in the Cellulose Field. — Alvin S. Wheeler 106 



Experiments on the Production of Crude Turpentine by the Long- 

 leaf Pine.— Chas. H. Herty 115 



A Memoir on the Twenty-Seven Lines Upon a Cubic Surface. — 



Archibald Henderson 120 



Food Adulteration. — Alivn S. Wheeler 135 



Notes on the Scutellation of the Red King Snake, Ophibolus Doliatus 



Coccineus, Schlegel. — C. S. Brimley 145 



Notes on the Food and Feeding Habits of Some American Reptiles. 



—C. 8. Brimley 149 



The Southern Appalachian Forest Reserve — J. //. Pratt 156 



