IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
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Academy the following letter was addressed to each mem- 
ber of the Iowa delegation in Congress: 
Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 2, 1901. 
Dear Sir: 
1 beg leave to call your attention to the following resolutions adopted 
unanimously by the Iowa Academy of Sciences, at a meeting of the Council 
on December 27, 1900: 
*• Resolved, That the Iowa Academy of Sciences approves the present 
movement toward the expansion of the Office of Standard Weights and 
Measures into a National Standardizing Bureau; and 
“ Resolved , further, that the Academy earnestly urges upon the Senators 
and members of the House of Representatives from the State of Iowa the 
desirability and importance of early action on the bill (H. R. 11350) now 
before congress, by the adoption of which, such a bureau would be estab- 
lished.” 
A. A. Veblen, 
S. W Beyer, H. W. Norris, 
Secretary Iowa Academy of Sciences. Committee. 
At the literary session the following papers were pre- 
sented: 
“The Harriman Alaska Expedition," illustrated by a series of excellent 
lantern slides. — Dr. Wm. Trelease, director of the Missouri botanical gar- 
den in St. Louis, Missouri. 
The Presidential address, “The Social Service of Science.” — W. H. 
Norton. 
1. Note on the time of sexual maturity of some Iowa Unios.— Harry M. 
Kelly. 
2. The Morphology and Function of the Amphibian Ear; a combination 
of chromic acid, acetic acid and formalin as a fixative in animal tissues. — 
H. W. Norris. 
3. Generic synopsis of the Nearctic Scutelleridse and Cydnidge. — H. E. 
Summers. 
4. Notes on the development of Astragalus caryocarpus.—F. W. Faurot. 
(Introduced by L. H. Pammel.) 
5. The Cupuliferae and Juglandacese. — T. J. Fitzpatrick. 
6. Methods of keeping living plant material in the Laboratory. — Haven 
Metcalf. 
7. Shrubs and forest trees of Madison county.— H. A. Mueller. 
8. Notes on the Bacteriological analysis of water; the native thistles of 
Iowa. — L. H. Pammel. 
9. Bacteriological observations on the Iowa State College sewage. — L. 
R. Walker. 
10. Some observations on the Flora of Southern Alabama, Mississippi 
and Louisiana; Photographic experience along the Gulf Coast. — F.M. Witter. 
11. A study of a terrace formation on the Turkey River, near Eldorado, 
Iowa. — G. E. Finch. 
12. The equivalent of the Hiatus at the base of our coal measures and 
the Arkansas series, a new Terrane of the Western Carboniferous; Old 
