PUBLICATIONS

 

OF THE

 

Nebraska Academy of Sciences

 

VI.

 

 

 

PROCEEDINGS, 1896.

 


 

ISSUED APRIL, 1898.

 


 

LINCOLN, NEBR., U. S. A.


The incorporation of the proceedings of the Academy of Sciences with the Historical Society "Proceedings and Collections," begun in this volume, is in accordance with a resolution of the Historical Society at its annual meeting January 13, 1897. The minutes of that meeting are found an page 196 of this volume, supra.


TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE

List of Officers and Members

215

Minutes of the Annual Meeting

219

Treasurer's Report

226

PAPERS--

The Nomenclature of the Nebraska Forest Trees, C. E. Bessey

229

A Comparison of Fossil Diatoms from Nebraska, C. J. Elmore

238

An Observation on Annual Rings, F. W. Card

243

Internal Temperature of Tree-Trunks, R. A. Emerson

245

Wind-Distribution of Seeds, E. M. Hussong

253

Collecting, Preparing, and Mounting Fossils, C. A. Barbour

258

Barites of Nebraska and the Bad Lands, E. H. Barbour

265

Chalcedony-Lime Nuts from the Bad Lands, E. H. Barbour

272

Discovery of Meteoric Iron in Nebraska, E. H. Barbour

276

What is Mathematics? E. W. Davis

280

A Family of Quartic Surfaces, R. E. Moritz

283

A Form of Weir Notch, O. V. P. Stout

285

Notes on Phyllopod Crustacea, H. A. Lafler and A. S. Pearse

287

Continued Biological Observations, H B. Ward

290

A New Plankton Pump, Ch. Fordyce

293

Parasites of Nebraska Dogs and Cats, H. B. Ward

297




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