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The Inheritance Of A Recurring Somatic Variation In Variegated Ears Of Maize, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

The inheritance of variegation has special interest and importance in genetics. It is with forms of variegation that the only two certainly known cases of non-Mendelian inheritance have had to do. I refer to Baur's experiments with Pelargonium, in which crosses of green-leaved and white-leaved forms exhibited somatic segregations in F₁ that bred true in later generations, and to Correns 's work with Mirabilis, which showed green and white leaf color, to be inherited through the mother only. De Vries's con- ception of "ever-sporting" varieties was apparently founded largely upon the behavior of variegated flowers in pedigree …

Multiple Factors Vs. "Golden Mean" In Size Inheritance, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Groth's preliminary note on the "golden mean" in the inheritance of sizes in SCIENCE of April 17, 1914, pp. 581-584, deserves the attention of geneticists. Its publication is of such recent date that I need only call attention to one or two points that seem to me of particular moment.

In brief, Groth's hypothesis is that the mode

of inheritance in F_l not only of surfaces and

volumes, but also of linear dimensions is to be

expressed by √ab rather than by a + b /2

where a and b are parent sizes. The hypothesis

is based upon …

A Notable Botanical Career, Charles E. Bessey

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

I have before me the " Report of the Botanist" to the Regents of the University of the State of New York, bearing date of January 1, 1868, covering less than two pages, and signed by Charles H. Peck. There is internal evidence that his services began July 1, 1867, the writer reporting what he had accomplished in the half year since that date. A year later the " Report of the Botanist " covered about 80 pages and included a short general statement followed by (A) List of Species of Which Specimens Have Been Mounted; (B) Plants Collected; (C) …

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.

Contributions To A Science Of Nematology, Nathan Augustus Cobb

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Contents

I. Antarctic Marine Free-Living Nematodes of the Shackleton Expedition.

II. North American Free-Living Fresh-Water Nematodes.

III. The Asymmetry of the Nematode Bunonema inequale, n. sp.

IV. Selachinema, a New Nematode Genus with Remarkable Mandibles.

V. Notes on Nemas.

VI. The Mononchs, a Genus of Free-Living Predatory Nematodes.

VII. Filter-Bed Nemas: Nematodes of the Slow Sand Filter-Beds of American Cities.

VIII. The Orders and Classes of Nemas.

IX. One Hundred New Nemas (Type Species of 100 New Genera).

X. Howardula benigna, a Nemic Parasite Cucumber-Beetle.

XI. Marionella.

XII. Greeffiella.

XIII. An Amendation of Hoplolaimus …

Rocky Mountain Flowers, Frederic E. Clements, Edith Schwartz Clements

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR PLANT-LOVERS AND PLANT-USERS WITH TWENTY-FIVE PLATES IN COLOR AND TWENTY-TWO PLATES IN BLACK AND WHITE

The present book is an endeavor to present the materials of the Rocky Mountain flora in preliminary form from the standpoint of the experimental ecologist. The latter is concerned primarily with the relationships of "species" and their subdivisions as an organic expression or measure of habitat differences, and of the competitive relations of the various formations. Whatever the taxonomic value of the numerous segregates of the last decade or two, the fact that the binomial form conceals the relationship to the …

Three American Singers: Louise Homer, Geraldine Farrar, Olive Fremstad, Willa Sibert Cather

Music and Literature Archive

"THREE women are at this moment dominating the most critical audience and the most splendid operatic stage in the world— the Metropolitan Opera House of New York. One of these women came out of a new, crude country, fought her way against every kind of obstacle, and conquered by sheer power of will and character. One of them has lived a sort of fairy-tale of good fortune from the time she began to sing. Each one has achieved a supremely individual success. The careers of these three great singers make one of the most interesting stories in the history of …

The Literary Interregnum, Louise Pound

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

In a Phi Beta Kappa address given last year before certain university audiences of the middle west, the head of the Columbia School of Journalism, Dr. Talcott Williams, made something of a text of the dearth of contemporary literary activity of the highest order. His reference was chiefl y to poetry, but he seemed to feel that there is now relative sterility nearly everywhere in the literary field. Th e period seemed to him not perhaps so much an interregnum, for that holds promise of succession to vacant thrones, as a period of decline; and this decline he felt to …

The Southwestern Cowboy Songs And The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Several writers recently have found analogy between the conditions attending the growth of cowboy songs in isolated communities in the Southwest, and the conditions under which arose the English and Scottish popular ballads—those problematic pieces which form so special a chapter in the history of English poetry. Mr. Lomax, the chief collector of southwestern folk songs, notes, when speaking of western communities, how "illiterate people and people cut off from newspapers and books, isolated and lonely—thrown back on primal resources for entertainment and for the expression of emotion—utter themselves through somewhat the same character of songs as did their forefathers …

Studies On The Relation Of The Nonavailable Water Of The Soil To The Hygroscopic Coefficient, F. J. Always

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

These experiments were carried out in connection with and subordinate to various soil investigations, the object being to determine the relation of the final water content of the soil to the hygroscopic coefficient and to determine to what extent the moisture was removed from the different portions of the subsoil not penetrated by plant roots.

Alfalfa Inoculation Tests, C. W. Pugsley

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

During the winter of 1909-10 an effort was made to secure cooperators among the farmers of Nebraska to test the value of inoculating newly seeded alfalfa fields. This investigation was 8uggested by reports received from correspondents during 1909. The names of farmers willing to cooperate were secured by correspondence and by conferences at the various Short Courses held during that year.

In the spring of 1910 about thirty-five farmers, located largely near Broken Bow, Cambridge, Franklin, and Blair, agreed to test the effect of cultures sent by the United States Department of Agriculture, soil from well-established alfalfa fields, and farm …

Growing Crops In Western Nebraska: Report Of Experimental Substation, North Platte, Nebraska, W. P. Snyder, W. W. Burr, E. A. Burnett

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

No abstract provided.

The Inheritance Of Quantitative Characters In Maize, R. A. Emerson, E. M. East

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The experiments conducted by one of the writers were begun at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven in 1906 and removed to the Bussey Institution of Harvard University at Forest Hills, Massachusetts, in 1909. The materials employed in this study consisted principally of crosses of Tom Thumb pop with Black Mexican sweet and of Watson flint with Leaming dent. The number of rows per ear were noted in several other crosses, the parents of which are listed later in this paper. The experiments of the other writer were begun at the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station at Lincoln in …

A Dry Rot Of The Irish Potato Tuber, E. Mead Wilcox, George K.K. Link, Venus W. Pool

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The first specimens of the dry rot herein described were received by the department of Agricultural Botany during the winter of 1907-1908 from western Nebraska. A preliminary survey of the situation showed clearly the importance of this new rot, and an exhaustive investigation of the disease was outlined and has been continued to the present time. The present publication gives the results secured to date in our investigation of this disease.

Cross-Bedding In The White River Formation Of Northwestern South Dakota, Dean E. Winchester

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Rocks of White River (Oligocene) age have been known for many years to constitute numerous isolated buttes and mesas in the northwest corner of South Dakota, but no detailed study of their character and structural relations had been made until 1911, when, during an examination of the lignite area of that country, the writer had occasion to study the relation of the younger rocks to those containing lignite beds.

Todd, in 1895, recognized the White River formation in the Slim Buttes and called attention to the area in the following language:

3. Miocene beds, both White River and Loup Fork, …

Press Bulletin 42, Some Suggestions Regarding The Care Of Milk And Cream In The Home, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Press Bulletin 42, Some Suggestions Regarding the Care of Milk and Cream in the Home, 1913

Press Bulletin 44, Suggestions For Dairy Farmers, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Press Bulletin 44, Suggestions for Dairy Farmers, 1913

Research Bulletin 1, Dry Rot Of The Irish Potato Tuber, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Research Bulletin 1, Dry Rot of the Irish Potato Tuber, 1913

Bulletin 138, Silo Construction In Nebraska (Limited Edition), 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 138, Silo Construction in Nebraska (Limited Edition), 1913

The Oregon Recruit Expedition, Albert Watkins

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

The object of early travel from the Missouri River to the region beyond the Rocky Mountains was, first, exploration, as in the example of the expeditions of Lewis and Clark and Fremont; second, trapping and trading; third, the colonization of Oregon; fourth, the reaching of the California and intra-montane gold mines; fifth, the transportation of soldiers and military supplies for the protection of these enterprises from hostile Indians. Prior to the period of transcontinental railroad-building there were several rival experimental routes to the northerly part of those regions and more particularly to Oregon; but the Platte River route, known as …

The Socratic Bergson, Hartley Burr Alexander

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

Perhaps the greatness of a great character is best to be seen in the multitude of analogies which it evokes; at any rate, the quality of suggestiveness makes secure draft upon our garrulous human interest and certifies for its possessor some substantial credit. More than any other man Bergson is the butt of our contemporary curiosity; and since Bergson is by profession a thinker, and since a thinker, unlike your man of deeds, is by profession never obvious, it becomes a matter of moment to discover just why he so touches us to the quick. The answer is indicated, I …

Magnacum Confusione, Philo M. Buck, Jr.

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

"--And I carried away from college a suit case of clothes and a packing case of notebooks. These were all I had left after paying my commencement bills, for the notebooks had no commercial value, nor any other, so far as my use of them has shown, as I have never looked in them since. And isn't that a fair allegory of your college education?"

Jones was speaking, a little bitterly for him, for usually he was the most sunny of high-school principals. We had been exchanging reminiscences during the last courses of an excellent luncheon served by a domestic …

The Intrusions Of Science, S. B. Gass

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

It is not infrequently related that human arrogance was sadly but not unjustly rebuked by Darwin and the evolutionary science of the Nineteenth Century. And indeed from the point of view of pure science there was arrogance in an assumption that the enveloping intelligence of the universe looked upon mankind as its terminus ad quem to which all parts were subordinate--in an assumption that men were made in the likeness of an over-ruling power that worked by ways which, paradoxically, even that likeness was fain to call mysterious and incomprehensible. Science seemed to make these ways less mysterious, less incomprehensible; …

Indefinite Composites And Word-Coinage, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Recognition of ‘blending' as a mode of word-formation, the telescoping of two or more words into one, as it were, or the superposition of one word upon another, is not new among etymologists, although the subject has never been given separate or very elaborate treatment. Some instances of these factitious amalgam forms, the 'portmanteau words' of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the blend or fusion forms of etymologists or lexicographers, are dumbfound from dumb and confound, dang from damn and hang, gerrymander from Elbridge Gerry and salamander, electrocute from electric and execute; probably boost from boom and hoist, …

Press Bulletin 39, Pasteurization Of Milk And Cream In The Home, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Press Bulletin 39, Pasteurization of Milk and Cream in the Home, 1913

Press Bulletin 40, Potato Pointers, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Press Bulletin 40, Potato Pointers, 1913

Press Bulletin 41, Evils Of Premature Creameries, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Press Bulletin 41, Evils of Premature Creameries, 1913

Press Bulletin 43, Distribution And Use Of Hog Cholera Serum, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Press Bulletin 43, Distribution and Use of Hog Cholera Serum, 1913

Research Bulletin 2, Inheritance Of Quantitative Characters In Maize, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Research Bulletin 2, Inheritance of Quantitative Characters in Maize, 1913

Research Bulletin 3, Studies On The Relation Of The Non-Available Water To The Hygroscopic Coefficient, 1913

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Research Bulletin 3, Studies on the Relation of the Non-available Water to the Hygroscopic Coefficient, 1913