TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
ORIGINAL PAPERS. 
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English surnames . . . . A. H. Tolman, 1 
On two new species of Diaptomus (with plate T), 
C. Dvnght Marsh , 15 
Some New Jersey eskers . . . G. E. Culver , 19 
Maximum stresses in bridge members (with plate II), 
L. M. Hoskins , 24 
Phases of witticism .... James D. Butler , 41 
An improved harmonograph . . Charles II. Chandler , 61 
Note on the progress of meridian transit observations for 
stellar parallax at the Washburn Observatory, 
A. S. Flint , 64 
Sphagna of the upper Wisconsin valley . L. S. Cheney , 66 
Parasitic Fungi of the Wisconsin valley . L. S. Cheney , 69 
Hepaticse of the Wisconsin valley (with plate III), 
L. S. Cheney , 70 
h the birds of Shiocton in Bovina, Outagamie county, 
Wisconsin, 1881-83, 
F. L. Grundtvig, translated by C. E. Faxon , 73 
History of early banking in Wisconsin, Clarence B. Hadden , 159 
G-eology of Conanicut Island, R. I. (with plate IV), 
George L. Collie , 199 
The sense of sight in spiders, with some observations on 
the color sense . George W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham , 231 
Political corruption and English and American laws for its 
prevention . . . Charles Noble Gregory , 262 
The personal equation in ethics . Frank Chapman Sharp, 299 
On the classification of carbon-compounds, Edward Kremers, 310 
