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The Weather Effect On The Characteristic Protein Values In Wheat, Mary Margaret Murphy

Bachelors’ Theses

Scientific investigation has proved conclusively that the protein content of the wheat kernel is the most important factor in determining the quality of the flour obtained. A high protein wheat is used for flour for bread making, and a low protein wheat for pastry flours. The quality of the protein must be determined by baking experimental loaves.

The year 1934 was a year of drought. In all parts of the country the wheat crops were affected by the lack of rainfall; hence, the protein value of the wheat must necessarily have been affected in some manner. The United States Department …

The Circulatory System In The Extremities Of The Domestic Cat From A Gross Anatomical Standpoint, Harold Liebenstein

Bachelors’ Theses

The mammalian circulatory system serves the prime purpose of furnishing the body with food to carry on its functions. The domestic cat is closely related anatomically and physiologically to the human being, which makes it an excellent animal for laboratory work or experimental purposes.

A Determination Of Nicotine In Tobacco, Raymond L. Boelter

Bachelors’ Theses

Nicotine or nicotin, named from Jean Nioot who introduced the tobacco plant into France in 1565 is the characteristic alkoloid of the tobacco plant, Nicotiana tobacum, in all parts of which it occurs to the extent of from six tenths of one per cent, to four and eight tenths per cent.

The Inheritance Of Some Human Traits, Robert H. Crawford

Bachelors’ Theses

Although the proper collection and observation of necessary data with reference to the application of Mendel's laws of heredity to man has been brief, it has disclosed evidence significant enough to make it appear highly probable that many of the characters in man follow these laws as well as do the traits of lower animals.

The object of this thesis was to determine whether or not certain human traits were inherited, the mode of their transmission from parent to offspring, and, if possible, the establishment of any proof of linkage in the human line.

A Taxonomical, Morphological And Distributional Study Of The Utah Cyprinidae /|Cby Sheldon Phipps Hayes, Sheldon Phipps Hayes

Theses and Dissertations

The hydrography of Utah may be thought of as being roughly divided into two large general drainage areas--, the Colorado River draining the eastern halt and southern portion ot the state and the Bonneville Drainage encompassing the remaining part of it. Earlier workers have listed eight genera and fourteen species of minnows occuring in Utah. Of these this report includes seven genera and ten species found within the borders of our state.

Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science And The Fourth Annual Convention Of The Junior Academy Of Science Of Iowa, April 19 And 20, 1935, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

No abstract provided.

Notes

Field and Laboratory

The Groundhog As A Weather Forecaster; Two Leading Chemists Visit Southern Methodist University; The Chemistry Club; Central Texas Section, American Chemical Society Meets At Southern Methodist University; Oberholser Lectures At Southern Methodist University

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (April 1935) 3(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

The Songs of the Western Meadowlark. By Misses Jessie M. and Mary A. Towne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 51

The Case Against the Bronzed Grackle. By Mrs. George W. Trine. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. 54

General Notes......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

A Slime Mould Collection For Comparison And Identification, Mayne Longnecker

Field and Laboratory

The University of Iowa has long been known as a center of mycological study….In order that more intelligent work may be done in various parts of the country in the classification of the myxomycetes, and for the purpose of stimulating interest in them, Professor [George W.] Martin is assembling a few collections of representative forms from the herbarium at the University of Iowa, and placing these in the hands of interested individuals at strategic and widely separated locations….It is the good fortune of the department of biology of Southern Methodist University to have received one of these collections for use …

Muscles Of The Forelimb And Pectoral Girdle Of The Spiny Soft-Shelled Turtle, Amyda Spinifera, Joseph Volk

Bachelors’ Theses

The order Chelonla Is characterized by an exo-skeleton formed by a somewhat cupshaped, oval carapace on the dorsal surface and a roughly rectangular, flat plastron on the ventral surface, which are united at their lateral edges, between the fore and hind limbs by structures of similar composition, the bridges.

Exotic Ancient Forests Of Washington, George F. Beck

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

The greatest fossil forest in the world is located within easy driving distance of the University of Washington campus in the State of Washington, near the Columbia River, east of the city of Ellensburg. Mr. George F. Beck, a member of the faculty of the Ellensburg State Normal School, and a former graduate student of the College of Forestry of the University of Washington, discovered this forest, which is now known as the Ginkgo Forest State Park. Aside from its importance from a scientific point of view, this "petrified forest," which contains a greater variety of species than any other …

A New Fossil Peccary, Prosthennops Niobrarensis, From Brown County, Nebraska, Edwin H. Colbert

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

During the summer of 1929, the writer, accompanied by Mr. Paul O. McGrew of the University of Nebraska, discovered during the course of excavations for fossil vertebrates in northern Brown County, Nebraska, a fairly complete peccary skull referable to the genus Prosthennops. This skull, due to its several unusual characters, as well as to its fair degree of completeness, would seem to warrant a special and a rather detailed description. Consequently the specimen has been kindly turned over to me by Dr. E. H. Barbour, Director of the Nebraska State Museum, not only for the purpose of the present …

A New Miocene Dog, Mesocyon Geringensis, Sp. Nov., Erwin Hinckley Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz

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

A field party from the Nebraska State Museum consisting of Messrs. E. L. Blue, Frank Crabill, Loren Eiseley, and C. Bertrand Schultz, on August 28, 1931, was fortunate in finding the remains of a new Mesocyon. This specimen, number 4-28-8-31, the Nebraska State Museum, was found in the Gering formation (lower Miocene), fifteen feet above the Brule, 400 feet west of the road in Redington Gap, near the center of the S. 1/2, sec. 14, T. 19 N., R. 52 W., west of Bridgeport, Morrill County, Nebraska.

Gnathabelodon Thorpei, Gen. Et Sp. Nov. A New Mud-Grubbing Mastodon, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, George F. Sternberg

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

In February, 1932, while opening a gravel pit to get material for highway construction, the skull, tusks, and mandible of a new longirostral mastodont were found by Robert Arnold on his ranch, Sec. 24, T. 12 S., R. 22 W., 1 1/2 miles due east of Ogallah, Trego County, western Kansas. This point is located about 20 miles west and three miles north of Hays, the seat of the Fort Hays Kansas State College, in the museum of which the above mentioned specimen is mounted and exhibited. When unexpectedly exposed by Mr. Arnold and his associates, the great skull was …

Comparison Of Runoff And Erosion In Prairie, Pasture, And Cultivated Land, J. E. Weaver, Wm. C. Noll

Papers of John E. Weaver (1884–1956)

Soil erosion resulting from runoff water has come to be recognized as a national menace. The determination and evaluation of all factors influencing runoff and erosion are studies of fundamental importance, especially insofar as they may be made to yield information upon methods of control over this insidious tendency of washing away the land.

"Fully 75 per cent of the crop-producing and grazing areas of the United States is sloping enough to set in motion, moderately or violently, these wasteful processes of accelerated soil-removal and excessive runoff. That 35 million acres of formerly cultivated land have been essentially ruined by …

Distribution Of The Human Blood Groups Among The Pueblo Indians Of New Mexico, Waldemar D. Schaefer

Biology ETDs

The purpose of this paper is to show the distribution of the human blood groups among the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. Upon reviewing all available literature concerning the distribution of the human blood groups, it was noticed that very little work had been done on the American Indian. Most of this work, although indicative of what really exists, cannot be accepted because of the insufficient number of Indians integrated and the failure to use an accepted standard method. In work that had been done previously, little attempt was made to secure a single homogeneous group of American Indians. Any …

Vegetative Changes In The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, Marjorie Van Cleave

Biology ETDs

This paper is concerned with the changes in the vegetation of the Middle Rio Grande Valley resulting from the lowering of the water table in the soil adjacent to the river. The Rio Grande has for a long time carried a heavy suspension of silt which is deposited as the river pursues its course southward to the Gulf of Mexico. The channel of the river has been raised as the result of this deposition until in many cases it has reached a level above that of the surrounding valley, and when this condition was attained the river diverted to a …

The Interrelationships Of Bark Beetles And Blue-Staining Fungi In Felled Norway Pine Timber, J. G. Leach, L. W. Orr, Clyde Christensen

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A study of two species of bark beetle (lps pini Say and I. grandicollis Eichh.) and the fungi associated with them has been made as the first part of a general investigation of the interrelations of insects and fungi in the deterioration of felled logs of Norway pine.

Some Studies On The Etiology Of Granuloma Inguinale, Hildrus A. Poindexter

College of Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Quantity Of Living Plant Materials In Prairie Soils In Relation To Run-Off And Soil Erosion, J. E. Weaver, George W. Harmon

Papers of John E. Weaver (1884–1956)

The menace of soil erosion did not appear in the west until much of the prairie was broken for cropping or weakened by continuous overgrazing. The grassland sod is a great conserver of rainfall; the amount of run-off water is relatively small, and the soil is firmly held against the forces of erosion. This study is concerned with the role that the living underground plant parts play in promoting the absorption of water by the soil, and especially their importance in reducing run-off. Their holding of the soil against the forces of water erosion has been experimentally determined. A study …

Effects Of Overgrazing On The Mortality Of Desert Browse Of The Utah West Desert, Charles W. Menzies

Theses and Dissertations

During the summer of 1934 this investigation was conducted to determine the effect of overgrazing on the mortality of desert browse in the vicinity of the Desert Range Branch experiment station. Range lands of western United States have, as a whole been subjected to overgrazing. Utah has about 24 million acres of public acres of public domain that can only be utilized from grazing. An effort has been made to put this area under control. The "Taylor Grazing Act" passed by Congress June 28, 1934 is a big step in the direction of the control of this vast area of …

The Anatomy, Systematic Position, Natural History And Economic Importance Of The Spoonbill Ganoid, Polyodon Spathula., Oscar H. Steinberg

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Reactions Of D-Glucuronic Acid And Its Derivatives, Edward John Kubicz

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Further Observations On The Sex-Ratios Of Terrestrial Isopods, S. W. Geiser

Field and Laboratory

Vandel contends that in terrestrial isopods the females are more numerous than males in collections. He gives tables showing the sex-ratios of collections of ten species…. Although Vandel finds that the sex-ratios of adult collections are one-sided in favor of the female sex, he nevertheless finds that in cultures of the species which he made, the sexes were about equally represented at birth, and in young populations. This accords with the findings of the present writer, who found the sexes approximately equal in very young populations of Armadillidium vulgare and Porcellio laevis.

Alumni Notes

Field and Laboratory

No abstract provided.

A Thermoprecipitation Reaction On Tyrypansoma Equiperdum Infection On Laboratory Animals, Hildrus A. Poindexter

College of Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Forest Fire Damage Studies In The Northeast--I. Bark-Beetles And Fire Damaged Hardwoods, Paul W. Stickel

The Bark Beetles, Fuels, and Fire Bibliography

In reporting the damage to trees scorched lightly at the base by fire the average fire warden and even the technically trained forester is given to stating that little harm has been done providing the tree crowns remain green. Such a statement is far from being correct, failing as it does to take into account the aftermath of insect and fungus damage which invariably follows even the lightest of surface fires. In the case reported herein, over 50 per cent of the fire-scorched hardwoods showed signs of the presence of ambrosia-beetles, whose work, even if the trees continue to live, …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (Oct 1934) 2(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

A Systematic Analysis of the Measurements of 404 Nebraska Specimens of Geese of the Branta canadensis Group, Formerly Contained in the D. H. Talbot Collection. By Philip A. DuMont and Myron H. Swenk ... 103

General Notes ... 117

Editorial Page ... 122

The 1934 Migration Season ... 123

Here and There with the N.O.U. Members ... 126

A Brief Synopsis of the Birds of Nebraska. III. Totipalmate Swimmers (Pelecaniformes) ... 128

A History of Nebraska Ornithology. I. The Ancient Period (Continued). Aboriginal Man and Bird Life ... 137

Index ... 144

More Important Published Lists of the Birds …

Stability Of Climax Prairie And Some Environmental Changes Resulting From Breaking, J. E. Weaver, Evan Flory

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Continued study of the great midcontinental grasslands of North America throughout a period of years has impressed the writers with the high degree of stability of the climax prairie. This phenomenon has been carefully considered in a study of the types of prairie in the Missouri Valley over an area of several thousand square miles centering in eastern Nebraska but including five neighboring states. Present studies on the deterioration of the prairie under the impact of grazing, and changes in edaphic and atmospheric environment with the breaking and cropping of the land have further emphasized the stabilizing influence of a …

The Algae Of A Transient Lake In Kentucky, Fred Mutchler

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The present taxonomical study was undertaken with the view of obtaining additional information on the occurrence and distribution of algae in Kentucky. The investigation was begun in February 1934 under the direction of Dr. H.L. Stephens of the Western Kentucky State Teachers College. During the next three months 110 collections of algae were made and analyzed.