First Report of the Michigan Academy of Sciences covering the time from the organization of the Academy in 1894 to June 30, 1899

Walter B. Barrows

Published by Robert Smith Printing Co., Lansing, Michigan, 1900

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Tight, bright, clean interior, light age soil to exterior spine, square. Small dent at top edge of back cover. Society stamp (Portland Society of Natural History, ME) and attached original envelope. 180 indexed, pages. 1st through 5th Annual meetings - Minutes -Constitution and by-laws - Members - Papers presented: Practical Benefits of Bacteriology, FG Novy - CA Davis - Flora of Michigan Lakes; Lepidoptera of Michigan; A new science, sanitation; A world of systematic Botany; Notes of utricularia resupinata (abstract); Notes on the germination of Brasenia peltata (abstact); Trees as dwelling places of animals, RH Wolcott - Tendencies in Michigan Horticulture, AA Crozier - Futile Experiments in the Improvement of Agriculture, Manly Miles - Uredineae of Michigan; Remarks concerning the saprophytic fungi grown in the vicinity of the Agricultural college, HL Merrow - Origin and Distribution of the land and fresh water mollusca of North America, Bryant Walker - Sub-carboniferous Limestone Exposure at Grand Rapids, MI , CA Whittemore - Notes on the Seismic Disturbances in Missouri in 1895, JM Millar -Michigan Birds that Nest in Open Meadows, LW Watkins - Notes on the teratological forms of Trillium grandiflorum, HB Baker - habits and characteristics of the Massasauga or Ground rattlesnake, sisturus catenatus, during captivity, PS Selous - Newton Third Law of Motion a factor in Organic Evolution, BO Longyear -A remarkable forest in Michigan not hitherto known to science, S. Alexander - JB Johnson - Structure of the olfactory lobe of the sturgeon (summary);Flora of Tuscola County (abstract) -Poisonous germs found in drinking water, JT McClymonds- Some vital statistics of Michigan, CL Wilbur - Evening grosbeak in Cental Michigan, Dr. WJ Beal - A leaf-miner Cheronomus in Water Lilies, RH Pettit - Apparatus for Photographing Vertebrate Embryos; Habits of Euclemensia bassetekka, a true parasite belonging to the Lepidoptera; Hind brain and cranial nerves of Acipenser (summary,) WJ Beal -Breeding habits of the Dog-fish, amia calva (abstract), Jacob Reighard - Origin and development of the adhesive organ of Amia calva (abstract), Jessie Phelps - Comparative Statistics of Climate and Mortality in Michigan, CL Wilbur 1.0.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Report of the Michigan Academy of Sciences covering the time from the organization of the Academy in 1894 to June 30, 1899
• Publisher: Robert Smith Printing Co., Lansing, Michigan
• Publication Date: 1900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: VERY GOOD+
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  • SCIENCE / History