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College Catalog And Circular 1909-1910, Iowa State Teachers College

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State Board of Education ... 4
Board of Trustees ... 5
Calendar for 1909-1910 ... 6
Faculty ... 8
Faculty Committees 1909-1910 ... 17
Organization of the Work ... 19
Organization of the Faculty ... 21
General Regulations ... 24
Faculty Regulations ... 27
Expenses and Fees ... 35
Literary Societies ... 37
Special Certificates ... 39
Training Department in Actual Teaching ... 41
Public Lectures and Entertainments ... 45
Boarding and Lodging ... 47
Requirements for Admission ... 53
Outline of the College Course ... 54
Method of Choosing Electives ... 55
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Commencement Announcements, May 1909, Iowa State Normal School

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Information relating to events associated with commencement ceremonies at the Iowa State Normal School.

Summer Term, 1909, Iowa State Normal School

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A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the Iowa State Normal School.

Table Of Contents

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

The Fifth And Seventh Cranial Nerves In Plethodon Glutinosus, H. W. Norris

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Thinking that possibly some of the conditions described by Dodds (1906) in t h e cranial nerves of Plethodon glutinous might throw some light upon the homologies of the ramus maxillaris V in the urodele amphibians the writer was led to work out carefully the distribution of the fifth cranial nerve and its branches, together with those of the seventh nerve, in the same species.

Officers, Past Presidents, And Members, Iowa Academy Of Science

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Necrology: W. N. Craven; Wilbert Eugene Harriman, John L. Tilton, L. H. Pammel, A. C. Page, G. F. Kay

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Studies In The Solubility Of Portland Cement Continued From 1908, G. G. Wheat

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

In the year 1908 we presented a brief paper before the Academy of Science, calling attention to certain uses of Portland cement concrete for farm drainage and city sewer purposes and in that connection raised the question of the fitness of the material for the use made of it. The importance of the question has greatly increased, as the spirit of improvement and progress is running like wildfire over our state.

Proceedings Of The Twenty-Third Annual Session Of The Iowa Academy Of Science: Staff & Committee Reports; Program, L. S. Ross

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Resolutions On Darwin, T. H. Macbride, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

It is fitting that the Iowa Academy of Science should, in some way, spread on the minutes of its proceedings, its estimate of what science owes to the work of Charles Darwin, the centenary of whose birth occurred on the 12th of February, 1909. Darwin's contribution to science was two-fold: in the first place it consisted of additions, the result of research, additions made directly to the body of the knowledge of his time: secondly, it consisted in a singular impulse to natural history study, an impulse destined to be long-lasting as science itself.

Some Parasitic Polyporaceae, Clarence D. Learn

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Up to within the past eight or ten years, very little attention had been paid in America to the study of those forms of fungi causing forest diseases. The reasons are obvious. Previously, the occurrence of a few diseased trees was practically unnoticed, due to the vast area of our forests. But, with the advance of the lumberman in the last decade, the situation has changed, and a demand has arisen among all classes of people for a more economical and rational treatment of the existing forest lands. The diseased trees of the primeval forest were ignored as they were …

The Analysis Of Smaltite With Special Reference To The Estimation Of Arsenic And Cobalt, Nicholas Knight

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

A gram of the substance is weighed into a porcelain crucible of 150 c.c. capacity, 50 c.c. of dilute nitric acid are added, and evaporated to dryness on the water bath. The nitric acid is removed with sulphuric acid. This treatment changes the lead sulphide that may be present to lead sulphate, which with the silica is removed by filtration.

The Summer Resident Birds Of Polk County, Iowa - A Guide To Local Study, Lester P. Fagan

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

This paper consists of notes on the more common summer-resident birds of Polk County, Iowa. Its purpose is not to give an exhaustive treatment of the subject, but merely to include those birds which the true, faithful student can expect to find nesting in this county every summer.

1909 Old Gold, Iowa State Teachers College

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Index; Author's Index

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

The Googler Primary Battery, Harry Ray Woodrow

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The cell furnished us by the Battery Company was of the two fluid type. The exciter was sulphuric acid and zinc and the depolarizer was principally nitric acid. It resembled very much the G roove and Bunsen cells but differed in the depolarizer, which contained ferric sulphate. The carbon was placed inside the porous cup surrounded by 450 c. c. of the depolarizer. Outside this was 2,000 c. c. of sulphuric acid and a round cylinder of zinc. The mercury served the purpose of keeping the zinc amalgamated and also in making contact with the external circuit.

The Migration Of Nervous Elements Into The Dorsal And Ventral Nerve-Roots Of Embryos Of The Pig, Albert Kuntz

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

That nervous elements migrate peripherally from the neural tube, during early embryonic development, has been observed by several investigators. Harrison ('01) called attention to medullary cells migrating into the ventral nerve roots of embryos of the salmon. Bardeen ('03) observed that "in mammals, as well as in the lower vertebrates, a certain number of cells wander out from the spinal ganglia and cord along with the bundles of axis-cylinder processes. "In his work on embryos of the chick, Carpenter ('06) has shown that cells of an indifferent character migrate from the ventral wall of the mid-brain along the oculomotor nerve …

Effect Of Temperature Inequalities On The Balance, L. D. Weld

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The topic herein presented had its origin in some work preliminary to another investigation, requiring the use of a sensitive balance operated with the greatest possible degree of precision. The balance used is by Sartorius, with 18 cm. beam and sensibility of about 2.3 scale divisions per mgr., pans empty, and so constructed that the sensibility increases slightly with moderate increase of load. The writer was studying this balance with a view to getting acquainted with its peculiarities, determining its constants and learning what degree of precision to expect of it (as should always be done with a new balance …

Program Of The Recitations For The School Year, 1908-1909, Iowa State Normal School

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The Fruit Of Viburnum Nudum, Robert H. Lott, Nicholas Knight

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The fruit of Viburnum Nudum was gathered in the swampy portions of the territory around Sylvan Beach, N. Y., on the eastern shore of Oneida Lake, August 27th to September 5, 1907. The territory was formerly the lake bottom, at the time when the water was discharged into the Mohawk River. An elevation of the land took place, the lake was projected farther north, and the water now reaches Lake Ontario through the Oneida and Oswego rivers. The soil of the Sylvan Beach territory is almost a pure sand, unadapted to agricultural purposes.

Carbonic Column Of Rio Grande Region, Charles R. Keyes

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The character of the later Paleozoic succession in southwestern United States has radically modified our general ideas regarding carbonic history in America. As directly bearing upon this subject the Carbonic rocks of the New Mexican region are of exceptional interest. The Rio Grande section, if it may be so designated, is serially the most complete in the country. It is of great thickness. It contains many elements wholly unknown elsewhere on the continent. It furnishes full data with which to close the already prolix debate on the exact age and stratigraphic position of the uppermost Paleozoic beds of Kansas and …

The Flora Of Iowa Rock, R. B. Wylie

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

During the summer of 1908, in connection with work at the Marine Biological Laboratory, located at Friday Harbor, Washington, two visits were made to an interesting little isle and lying several miles to the south of the Station. The position of this island gave special interest to its algal flora; and, its borders, with adjacent shorelines, constituted one of the richest collecting grounds of the region. The name “Iowa Rock" was proposed for this island, and local revenue officers have taken steps to make this name official on the government maps of that region.

The Hysteresis Loop, D. W. Morehouse, Harry Ray Woodrow

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

It is not proposed to introduce a new method for the determination of the hysteresis loop, but to introduce some advantageous modifications. The method is similar to the ring ballistic method outlined by Dr. R. A. Millikan. This method has the advantage over the old magnetometer method in that the lines of force are continuous through the iron. It cannot be used however if the iron is hard and causes any creeping.

Title Page - Letter Of Transmittal, L. S. Ross

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

President's Address - The Work Of The Iowa Geological Survey, Samuel Calvin

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The present Geological Survey was organized in 1892. Before that time Iowa had had the honor and the distinction of being served in the office of State Geologist by that Nestor of American Geology and Paleontology, James Hall, and by hi worthy successor, Dr. Charles A. White. It was Iowa's great misfortune that neither of these distinguished geologists was permitted to do more than the merest reconnaissance work. Official geological work in Iowa may indeed claim three distinguished names, for geological investigation began in this state u n d e r the direction of David Dale Owen, United States Geologist, …

The Polyporaceae Of Fayette Iowa, Guy West Wilson

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The Polyporaceae are a group of most interesting fungi which have of recent years assumed a position of prime economic importance as it has been demonstrated that many of them cause the decay of timber trees which formerly they were supposed to follow. The parasitic nature of these fungi has added a new incentive to their careful study. Some species are found only on the diseased portion of living trees, while others appear to inhabit only dead timber. Of these it is not improbable that a considerable number may be able to infect living timber and later to maintain themselves …

The Underground Organs Of A Few Weeds, L. H. Pammel, Estelle D. Fogel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

A study of some of the troublesome perennial weeds and their methods of extermination has led the authors to look up the botanical descriptions of the underground portions and manner of propagation.

Notes On Factors In Fungus Diseases Of Plants, With Records Of Occurrences Of Plant Diseases At Ames For A Period Of Twenty Five Years, L. H. Pammel, Charlotte M. King

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

It is important in a study of plant diseases to understand the causes of wide-spread epidemics; notes on the prevalence of diseases, and their seasonal and geographical distribution, are an aid to this knowledge.

The Okoboji Lakeside Laboratory, Thomas H. Macbride

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The establishment of the Okoboji Lakeside Laboratory, founded by the alumni of the State University of Iowa, promises to affect so deeply the future scientific work of our state that some account of its beginning and especially its raison d'etre may rightly claim the attention of the Academy. The laboratory has been located on the west shore of Lake Okoboji in Dickinson County for the reasons following.

The Action Of Manure On A Certain Iowa Soil, E. B. Watson

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The soil on which these studies were made was Southern Iowa loess from the experiment field in Decatur County, Iowa. It is a fine loess soil containing considerable clay with the silt, and enough organic matter in the surface to make it dark brown. This loess differs from that of both eastern and western Iowa in its color, which is grey rather than yellow. It is the prevailing type of soil in southern Iowa. The field from which the sample was taken had been in cultivation thirty or forty years, and in that time had probably produced no clover crops. …