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The Anatomy Of The Honeybee, Carol M. Steib

Bachelors’ Theses

The honeybee has lived In a society under such complex laws and has executed such varied and difficult labors that it has attracted the attention of men and women from the very earliest of times. Aristotle, Cato, Varro, Pliny, Columella, Pollodius, all studied the bee; as also did Arlstomachus (who, if we are to believe Cicero, watched them for forty-eight years) and Phylisius whose writings have been lost.

The Anatomy Of The Timber Rattlesnake, Ruth H. Heinemann

Bachelors’ Theses

Snakes are the most highly specialized of all reptiles. The absence of limbs, in itself, is a great specialization. They possess a great modification of the jaws which enables them to engulf large prey entire. Probably the most out­ standing specialization is the remarkable modification of dentition in the venomous snakes. The so-called fangs are nothing more than teeth modified to a great degree.

Christ Crucified: A Book Of Sermons Together With A Lecture On Evolution, G. C. Brewer

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.

Scientific Discoveries Concerned With Pathogenic Micro-Organisms, Matilda Mary Steinbrecher

Bachelors’ Theses

Stand where you choose some calm night and look up into the great dome of the sky. Realize that those countless stars, once believed to regulate our destinies, have been proven by science to be other worlds more or less like ours. Let your thoughts wander on to objects near at hand. You see the rocks and soil and plants as did mankind for ages back; but where they not so long back saw nought else, you see rocks breaking into fertile soil and realize that minute living beings are responsible. You have come to understand that all the nitrogen …

The Theory Of Spontaneous Generation, Arthur Thomas Kuesel

Bachelors’ Theses

The theories concerning the origin of life on this planet have been many and varied all down the ages. In the prescientific ages, if we may be allowed to designate those years as such, before science was as exacting and searching sit is now, practically all the theories advanced by the philosophers at the time have since been proven to be fallacies and all of them save one, the Theory of Spontaneous Generation have been discarded into the limbo of mistaken notions.

Extreme Evolution Is Absurd And Moderate Evolution Is Not Yet Established, Marie Georgiana Blommer

Bachelors’ Theses

In the world of literature and science many records containing startling theories are to be found. Among these is the doctrine of Evolution. Many assure us that Science compels us to believe in Evolution. An explanation of the terms must be clearly understood to avoid a fallacious use of terms. Professor Huxley, who follows Hume, declares that Science is "nothing but trained and organized commonsense." The term is applied to physical science or "that whose province is the observation of phenomena and inferences directly deducible from them." The term "Evolution" is often differently understood. In its literal sense it is …

Localization Of The Motor Area In The Brain, Marian Josephine Xander

Biology Honors Papers

This 15 page thesis examines theories of brain function, localization of sense and motor area and experimental methods.

Ua94/6/1 Biology Notebook, Mildred Willian

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Biology notebook kept by Mildred Willian ca. 1920. Includes notes regarding different species and drawings.

[Book Review Of] Adaptation In Metapopulations: How Interaction Changes Evolution, By Michael J. Wade., David C. Queller

Biology Faculty Research

Adaptation in Metapopulations: How Interaction Changes Evolution. By Michael J. Wade. Chicago (Illinois): University of Chicago Press . $120.00 (hardcover); $40.00 (paper). vii + 260 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-226-12956-3 (hc); 978-0-226-12973-0 (pb); 978-0-226-12987-7 (eb). 2016.

Faunistic Survey Of A Limited Area In New Mexico, Louise Wilkinson, Hazel Fern Reeves

Biology ETDs

The subject of this thesis was suggested by Prof. A. O. Weese. It was chosen by the writers first because they were interested in the distribution and habits of animal life in New Mexico and second because they wished to learn more about classification and methods of classification of animal life in general.

It has been found that New Mexico does not afford so great a variety of animal life as compared with more moist regions but that it affords much more than a casual observation would indicate. Most of those which it affords are found in large numbers.

The …

A Study Of Senescence, William T. Sanger

Historical Dissertations & Theses

A complete study of senescence would involve, not only a consideration of man, but of lower organisms, animal and plant, as well as institutions, races, nations, even the cosmos itself; for assuredly the phenomena of decay are as universal and intricate as those of genesis. In the present study, however, it will be attempted merely to indicate, first, the best that has already been done upon human senescence; second, to add further findings; and third, to set more definitely a number of new problems for future investigation.

Synopsis Of The Conjugate Algae-Zygophyceae, Charles E. Bessey

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

A dozen or more years ago the writer prepared a series of papers on these plants, which were published in volumes 21, 22 and 23 of these Transactions, and now it seems that time enough has elapsed to warrant another paper dealing with the same group, and including such revisions as are now made necessary because of our better knowledge of their structure, and the structure of the nearly related plants.

Some Of The Next Steps In Botanical Science, Charles E. Bessey

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

When one who has worked long in any

field of science speaks before an audience

such as this he is expected to say something

about the condition of his branch of science

when he began work with meager and

poorly adapted apparatus, to contrast it

with its greatly improved condition to-day,

and to dwell with pride upon the finely

equipped laboratories with costly apparatus

especially designed for particular

experiments, to be found by the twentieth

century scientific student. And 1 must

confess that the temptation to do so was

one difficult to resist, for we who have

grown old in …

New Elementary Agriculture, Charles E. Bessey, Lawrence Bruner, Goodwin D. Swezey

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

This is an agricultural nation. The products of the soil are the basis of her industries and her prosperity. The children of our great Commonwealths should be familiar with our crops, our grains and grasses, our flowers and fruits, our trees and shrubs and weeds, our domestic animals and birds and insects. Our children should have a practical knowledge of the management of a farm, of the composition of the soil, and of the adaptability of the farm and its soil for the cultivation of certain plants and the counter effect of such plant growth upon the soil. They should …

Organization And Polarity Of Protoplasm, John P. Munson

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

In higher forms of life, we usually concede the presence of an organ specialized for the performance of a function. In these higher forms coordination of organs, which entails a regular sequence in their functions, is readily made out; and it seems a mere platitude to say, of these, that organization determines the functions of the organism. To what extent can functions exist in the absence of organization; does the one precede the other; or have function and organization developed simultaneously, out of matter devoid of both structure and function? In my studies on the cell, I have kept these …

Embryology And Evolution, Malo Marius Amunson

Manuscript Thesis Collection

The proofs of evolution must be sought in the entire field of science. Direct proof is found in the study of Morphology, whose bases are comparative anatomy; embryology; in the study of paleontology, of geology, of geographical distribution, in the study of nature and experiments of today. In this vast field of direct proofs of evolution it is our purpose to present some of the evidences of evolution as furnished by one of these, namely, Comparative Embryology.

Spermatogenesis Of The Butterfly, Papilio Rutulus, John P. Munson

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

For a number of years I have been studying the spermatogenesis of Papilio rutulus (pl. 12, fig. 1) not ,with any one single problem especially in view, but with the aim of ascertaining the entire life history of its sperm cell, its various phases of development, its mode of growth and differentiation, the history of its several parts, and its relation to the organism.

Researches On The Oogenesis Of The Tortoise, Clemmys Marmorata, John P. Munson

Biology Faculty Scholarship

No abstract available.

Development Of The Femur Of The Cat, E. A. Brown

Manuscript Thesis Collection

Abstract unavailable.

Some Observations On Living Cells, S. Calvin

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Report On The Birds Of Minnesota, P. L. Hatch

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

President's Address: Did Life Originate By Law?

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.