TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Letter of Transmittal 3 
Table of Contents 5 
Constitution and By-Laws 7 
Officers for 1908-1909 13 
Membership 14 
Treasurer’s Report 18 
Life of Ernest Everett Bogue, W. J. Beal , 19 
List of Papers presented at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science . 20 
Papers published in this Report : 
Presidential Address — Man in West Norway, M. S. W. Jefferson 23 
The Claims of the Michigan Academy of Science, W. J. Beal 30 
Mutual Interactions of Plant Roots. J. B. Dandeno 32 
Some Interesting Variations of Common Plants, Chas A. Davis'. 37 
Seedlings of Ranunculus Purshii, Chas. A. Davis 39 
A Botanical Trip to Thunder Bay Island, C. K. Dodge 40 
Problem of the Causes of the Formation of Mechanical Tissues in Plants, F. C. Newcombe. 42 
Effect of Longitudinal Traction on the Formation of Mechanical Tissue in Stems, John 
A. Bordner 43 
Response of Tendrils to Traction, Warren D. Brush 44 
Effect of Swaying by the Wind on the Formation of Mechanical Tissue, Maude Gilchrist 45 
Mycorhiza on Michigan Trees, D. M. Matthews and G. A. Duthie 46 
Some Mycorhiza-Forming Basidiomycetes, L. II. Pennington 47 
Can Fusaria Assimilate Free Nitrogen? L. H. Pennington 59 
The Ascus Stage of Sclerotinia frudigena, 3. B. Dandeno 51 
Capillarity of Cellulose, J. B. Dandeno 54 
Toxic Action of Bordeaux Mixture and of Certain Solutions on Spores of Fungi. J. B. Dandeno 58 
L’nreported Michigan Fungi for 1907 with an Outline of the Gasteromycetes of the State, C. H. 
Kauffman 63 
Unreported Flora of Michigan, W. J. Beal 85 
Pleistocene Beaches of Saginaw County, W. F. Cooper — 90 
Some possible Uses for Peat in Michigan, Chas. A. Davis 99 
Peat Deposits as Geological Records, Chas. A. Davis 107 
Opsonic Technique, E. C. L. Miller k 113 
The Study of Types in the Presentation of Botany and Zoology in Secondary Schools, 
Nathan A. Harvey 145 
The Study of Botany and Zoology in Secondary Schools, in the Form of Natural History, 
W. P. Holt 153 
A Preliminary Note on Insecticides, R. H. Pettit.. 159 
A Possible Parasitic Habit in the Lepidoptera, R. H. Pettit 161 
An Ecological Study of the Birds of the Ypsilanti Bayou, Max M. Peet 162 
A Contribution to our Knowledge of Insecticides, C. T. McC’intock, E. M. Houghton and 
H. C. Hamilton 197 
The Toxic Properties of Bog Water, Alfred Daclmowski 299 
Papers published elsewhere and not appearing in this Report 211 
Exchanges of the Michigan Academy of Science 212 
Index • 221 
