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Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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The Pipy Concretions Of The Arikaree, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The pipy concretions of the Arikaree (lower Miocene) of Nebraska and adjacent states were first described by Nelson Horatio Darton (1899, p. 743) as "characteristic layers of hard, fine-grained, dark-gray concretions, often consisting of aggregations of long, irregular, cylindrical masses" (see Figures 30, 32, 34, and 35). The individual pipes vary in diameter from a few inches to several feet, and in length from a few inches to a hundred yards or more. Tests demonstrate that pipy concretions are composed of sand cemented by calcium carbonate. When dipped in acid the cement is dissolved and the concretion is reduced to …

The Highland Park Shopping Village: A Planned Sub-Retail Center, Carol F. King, Mary Grace Gillespie

Field and Laboratory

The purpose of this paper is to set forth the way in which a specific sub-retail center has been planned and built in order to more efficiently serve the trade territory on which it depends. The shopping center selected for study is one of several strikingly similar projects which are being developed in widely separated areas west of the Mississippi River. All have been in operation a relatively short period of time, each was begun almost immediately after the financial crisis of 1929, and each has been built to meet the demand by automobile trade for more accessible and less …

Utah State Agricultural College Graduates Now Living In Other States, Robert Dawson Simpson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This is a study of graduates of the Utah State Agricultural College who have left Utah and are now residing elsewhere. Inquiries by faculty members and interested alumni, as well as the writer's own interest in the subject of migration, prompted the organization of this study.

The immediate reason for the inquiry was an enlarging interest on the campus concerning the present whereabouts of graduates who have left the state. When present residence was ascertained, other questions arose. What kind of employment had migrating graduates secured? What major interests were had? What important voluntary public services are graduates rendering to …

Bulletin No. 291 - Range Resources Of Rich County, Utah, L. A. Stoddart

UAES Bulletins

In 1936 the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station organized project 179 entitled "A study of agricultural resources of Utah and their utilization." The project was divided into four sub-projects, A dealing with agricultural economics, B dealing with soil resources, C dealing with irrigational water resources, and D dealing with range resources.

Sub-project D, entitled "Range resources and condition of vegetation cover," was begun in 1936 with a survey of Duchesne and Uintah Counties, and the findings were published as Utah Station Bulletin No. 283, "Range conditions in Uinta Basin, Utah." The field season of 1937 was devoted to Wasatch County, and …

A Comparative Study Of Textbooks In General Agriculture Used In Senior High Schools, Lowell O. Yasmer

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The specific problem of the thesis is, "A Comparative Study of Certain Textbooks in General Agriculture Used in Senior High Schools.” It is limited in that it doe s not cover all textbooks in the field of general agriculture , but only those which made a certain score or rating through the use of a device formulated for this purpose, nor was it the problem to discover which is the best textbook in agriculture but rather to make a comparative analysis of the textbooks selected. The books selected were compare d critically with each other in an effort to determine …

Description Of The Rock City At Palo Pinto, Texas, With An Estimate On The Rate Of Rock Creep, Charles L. Mcnulty, Melville M. Mercer

Field and Laboratory

Approximately three miles west of Palo Pinto, Texas, on U. S. Highway 80, is a typical rock city known as Lovers' Retreat. The locality, one of several rock cities in Palo Pinto County, is roughly rectangular in shape and extends for a thousand feet or more along the north side of the highway. Lovers' Retreat is well known in Texas and people come from all parts of the state to picnic in the groves along Eagle Creek and to explore the narrow passsageways between the huge blocks of limestone on the north side of the stream.

Origin Of Some Channel Fillings In The Austin Formation Around Dallas, Texas, William Otis Ham Jr.

Field and Laboratory

At many localities along the outcrop of the Austin formation in Dallas County, Texas, channel fillings apparently composed of reworked bedrock occur at levels above the highest stream terraces. If a post-Cretaceous chronology for this portion of Texas is to be formulated, these channel fillings must be taken into account. A more immediate problem, however, is that of the origin of the fillings themselves.

A Study Of Local Size Variations In The Prairie Pocket-Gopher (Geomys Bursarius), With Description Of A New Subspecies From Nebraska, Myron H. Swenk

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Beginning in the fall of 1913, the writer has continuously been interested in accumulating accurate body measurements, taken in the flesh, of Nebraska pocket-gophers. As a result quite an assemblage of such data has been secured. In the case of Geomys bursarius, the bulk of these data relates to specimens trapped in the vicinity of Lincoln, Lancaster County, involving to date 48 adult and 38 immature males and 50 adult and 65 immature females. Recently these measurements have been tabulated and compared with such measurements of the species as have been recorded in the literature from other parts of …

Bionomics Of The Aquatic And Semi-Aquatic Hemiptera Of Dallas County, Texas, Dick D. Millspaugh

Field and Laboratory

Although (as Professor S. W. Geiser has shown in his publications on scientific study and exploration in Early Texas) a number of naturalists and entomological collectors have worked in Texas, and some of them (like Jacob Boll, Gideon Lincecum, J. D. Mitchell, A. C. V. Schott, G. W. Belfrage, E. A. Schwarz and F. A. Schaupp) have made notable contributions toward our first knowledge of the insect fauna of Texas, either by collection of specimens sent to monographers and specialists, or by publication, still, on several groups our information is meager. Among these groups are the aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera.

Fifty Years Of Achievement In Agricultural Investigation, R. T. Prescott

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

In Nebraska, a hustling frontier state in 1887, the legislature hesitated not at all in taking advantage of the provisions of the Hatch Act, and now that fifty years have elapsed since the Station was founded, seventy-five years since the Land Grant College Act was passed and the U. S. Department of Agriculture established, and almost twenty-five years since the Agricultural Extension Service was added, it seems worth while to present a general summary of achievement within the state. The main object will be to show some of the important things that have been learned through the investigations of the …

A Century Of Scientific Exploration In Texas, Part Ib: 1820-1880, S. W. Geiser

Field and Laboratory

In the fourth volume of this journal, I published a list, with short biographical notices, of naturalists and men of science who worked in Texas from 1820 to 1880. In that paper I promised a second contribution, to deal with naturalist-collectors and students in Texas during the years 1881-1920, thus rounding out a century of scientific study and exploration in the State.

A Preliminary Report On A Study Of College Science Courses Considered Valuable By High School Science Teachers, G. M. Wissink

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Fifty-First Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science And The Sixth Annual Convention Of The Junior Academy Of Science Of Iowa, April 16 And 17, 1937, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

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The Frank Carney Collection Of Maps, Edwin J. Foscue

Field and Laboratory

The Department of Geology and Geography of Southern Methodist University has been fortunate in securing the entire collection of wall maps from the private library of the late Doctor Frank Carney, sometime Professor of Geology and Geography at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and formerly of Denison University, Granville, Ohio.

Bulletin No. 275 - Types Of Farming In Utah, Marion Clawson, Walter U. Fuhriman, George T. Blanch, W. Preston Thomas

UAES Bulletins

A large portion of the agriculture of Utah, outside of the desert range areas, is characteristically heterogeneous rather than homogeneous in character. Marked differences in size of farm, in crops grown, in livestock kept, in yields, and in farm organization occur within short distances. This diversity is due in large measure to differences in soil, elevation, topography, and other physical features and to climatic characteristics such as amount, kind, and distribution of precipitation and length of growing season. The physical and climatic features are the chief determinants of the amount of water potentially available for the irrigation of the crop …

Practical Methods In Phase Rule Study: Transition Temperatures From Electromotive Force Measurements, V. Metler

Field and Laboratory

The methods available for the determination of transition temperatures have been classed by Findlay under seven heads: (1) dilatometric methods, (2) vapor pressure methods, (3) solubility measurement methods, (4) latent heat measurement methods, (5) optical methods, (6) viscosimetric methods, and (7) electrical methods.

The Influence Of The Shoreline, Rivers And Springs On The Settlement And Early Development Of Texas, Ellis W. Shuler

Field and Laboratory

A comparison of early colonial settlements in New England and Texas during the middle of the eighteenth century shows a decided contrast in their locations. In New England the colonists settled along the coast, in Texas along a line roughly parallel to the coast but about one hundred miles into the interior. This distribution, coast line and interior, is all the more striking since in Florida and the West Indies the Spanish colonists, just as the English in New England, settled along the sea margin.

Alumni Notes

Field and Laboratory

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Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Type Collection Of The Writings Of Robert T. Hill, Ellis W. Shuler

Field and Laboratory

Dr. Robert T. Hill has signally honored the Geological Department of Southern Methodist University by donating to its library the type collection of his writings with an index and annotated bibliography. This collection covers the writings of one of America's leading geologists over a period of nearly half a century. Interesting and valuable in every phase of geology, it is the court of final reference for the student of the history of Texas stratigraphy.

The Geology And Mammalian Fauna Of The Pleistocene Of Nebraska Part I Outline Of Pleistocene Geology Of Nebraska Part Ii The Pleistocene Mammals Of Nebraska, A. L. Lugn, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The object of the present paper is to provide a suitable brief statement of the present state of knowledge of the Pleistocene geology of Nebraska, for an adequate understanding of the Pleistocene Mammal list, by Mr. C. Bertrand Schultz, which forms Part II of this report. The "outline" is necessarily brief and does not contain many detailed sections, nor lengthy discussions of controversial points. It is lacking in adequate detailed descriptions of new formations and may not be entirely convincing to many readers. The only excuse which the writer can offer for the shortcomings of the following pages is the …

Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science And The Second Annual Convention Of The Junior Academy Of Science Of Iowa, April 21 And 22, 1933, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

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Aerial Reconnaissance Mapping Of Land Utilization, Claude C. Albritton Jr.

Field and Laboratory

Within the last year, the Department of Geology and Geography of Southern Methodist University has initiated a series of land utilization studies for Dallas County. The survey divides the county into thirty areas of approximately thirty square miles each. The first two areas assigned, located in the northwest corner of the county, embracing about sixty-five square miles, contain two small urban centers, Farmers Branch (population 400), and Carrollton (population 689). In the course of field work on the assigned areas, the authors felt that an aerial reconnaissance might expedite the survey and an airplane trip was arranged to cover the …

Notes, Corrections, Alumnae Notes

Field and Laboratory

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Field And Laboratory, Notes

Field and Laboratory

With the belief that the discipline of writing and the possibility for publication will promote a spirit of research, Field and Laboratory begins with this issue as a semi­annual magazine devoted to the publication of the results of work done by students and teachers of science in Southern Methodist University. The articles in this issue include the records of experiments conducted in the Physics, Biology, and Chemistry laboratories, and of field studies in Geology and Geography. As the magazine is sponsored by the entire science group, articles will of necessity be varied in character; it is planned to include in …

A Study Of Some Species Of Pediastrum And Scenedesmus, Irene Cull

Bachelors’ Theses

Although regarded by the untrained observer as slime, filth and scum, algae are fascinating to the botanist who has become interested in them. Algae are found everywhere; they are our commonest water plants. Among the green algae we have some of the most beautiful and fascinating forms in the plant kingdom and undoubtedly Pediastrum and Scenedesmus, the two genera studied, are among the most beautiful of all.

The Scottsbluff Bison Quarry And Its Artifacts, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The association of artifacts with extinct bison bones in a quarry near Grand Island, Hall County Nebraska,¹ and from one in Custer County, Nebraska, have already been reported.² In the meantime, continued search has been rewarded, and a large bed of fossil bison with associated flint implements found. The discovery, if not of actual consequence, at least adds something to the accumulating evidence that Pleistocene man in America may have been a reality.