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Commencement Addresses, June 8, 1892, Iowa State Normal School

UNI Commencement Programs

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

Program, Iowa State Normal School, Spring Term, 1892, Iowa State Normal School

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught at the Iowa State Normal School.

[09] George W. Jones, Document Or Letter, Accomplishments Or Law, William N. Von Ahsen

Iowa Documents Class Projects

A letter from George W. Jones to the Supreme Court of Iowa.

The Stomata And Palisade Cells Of Leaves, F. C. Stewart

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The name stomata (sing. stoma) has been applied to the elliptical apertures in the epidermis of leaves and other green parts of plants. The stoma is a modified epidermal cell and consists of a rift and guardian cells (usually two in number). The guardian cells are rightly named for it is their function to regulate the amount of evaporation from the leaf by opening and closing the rift. Unlike ordinary epidermal cells, the guardian cells contain chlorophyll, and for that reason they were once, thought to belong to the parenchyma.

Natural Gas And Oil In Iowa, Charles Rollin Keyes

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

During the past decade no geological question has awakened more popular interest than that of the possibility of finding natural gas and petrolium within the limits of the State. In a number of places shallow borings have yielded from time to time sufficient quantities of natural gas for local use. At some of these places the citizens are kept constantly in a feverish state of expectancy which is ever ready to burst beyond all reasonable bound at the slightest provocation. There is scarcely a county in the State where the problem has not been agitated to a greater or less …

Commencement, 1892, Iowa State Normal School

UNI Commencement Programs

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

Officers Of The Academy

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

The Relation Of The Cretaceous Deposits Of Iowa To The Sub-Divisions Of The Cretaceous Proposed By Meek And Hayden, S. Calvin

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The cretaceous deposits of Woodbury and Plymouth Counties are composed of sandstones, shales and certain calcareous deposits. The heavier beds of sandstone belong to the basal portion of the series, barely rising higher than forty feet above the level of the water in the Big Sioux River. The part of the column to which these heavier sandstones are confined is, however, not all sandstone, but consists of arenaceous beds alternating with beds of argillaceous shales. Above the more massive sandstones the beds, for a vertical distance of fifty to sixty feet, contain streaks and thin layers of sand, but shales …

Table Of Contents

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Strata Between Ford And Winterset, J. L. Tilton

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

[The following article was accompanied by a series of diagrams representing the size, location, and relative position of the various out-crops.] Middle River rises on the eastern slopes of the divide in Adair and Guthrie Counties. It flows just south of Winterset, in Madison County, then northeasterly to the northeast corner of Warren County, where it takes an easterly direction for four miles and flows into the Des Moines River, about eight miles below the city of Des Moines. Consequently, a line drawn along Middle River from its mouth to Winterset, a distance of about fifty miles, passes from close …

Notes On The Flora Of Texas, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

In 1888 and 1889 the writer had the pleasure of spending a few months of two summers in studying a disease of cotton commonly known as Root-Rot of Cotton. Incidentally some attention was given to the phaenogamic flora of the State.

Notes On The Pollination Of Cucurbits, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Little attention has been given to a study of the pollination of cucurbits, The European Bryonia dioica was studied by Hermann Müller and Mr. T. C. Gentry has studied Cucurbita ovifera and C pepo, but his account is quite inaccurate in some important particulars. Mr. Gentry assumes that they are pollinated by the wind. lnsects, especially Hymenoptera, are the important pollinators. Coleoptera, especially Diabrotica rittata, D. longicornis, D. punctata, are frequently found in flowers and incidentally carry the pollen. Some of the Syrphus flies also assist in the pollination of Citrullus vulgaris.

Preliminary Observations On A Cattle Disease Frequently Occurring In Iowa, W. B. Niles

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

This disease is called hydrophobia by the people at large in a majority of cases. By veterinarians it is diagnosed as rabies, cerebro-meningitis, enteritis and impaction of the third stomach.

Pellaea Atropurpurea, Link., On Sandstone Ledges In Muscatine County, Iowa, F. Reppert

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

There are in Muscatine County two localities where this fern occurs. These stations are sandstone ledges belonging to the carboniferous formation. This seems to be an exceptional and as yet unrecorded habitat for this fern. These localities are both along the Mississippi River, the one at Wyoming Hills, seven miles, the other at Montpelier, fourteen miles above Muscatine City.

List Of Iowa Clover Insects And Observations On Some Of Them, J. A. Lintner, C. M. Weed

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The following list of Iowa clover insects comprises those species enumerated by Profs. J. A. Lintner and C. M. Weed as clover feeders which are known to occur in the State with such additions as personal observation or accepted authority will permit. All insects listed occur in the collections of the Iowa Agricultural College, and the notes in connection with any individual insect refer only to its occurrence on clover.

Notice Of A Stone Impement From Mercer County, Illinois And One From Louisa County, Iowa, F. M. Witter

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The Mississippi River separates Mercer County Illinois, from Muscatine County, and Louisa County, Iowa, borders Muscatine County on the south. Both of these counties have yielded many valuable relics of the prehistoric people who once filled and owned these lands. The Davenport Academy of National Sciences has carefully worked these fields and Muscatine antiquarians have done likewise. But it is not of the numerous, conspicuous, fertile mounds of these regions I wish now to speak. Mr. Jas. Wier, of Muscatine, for the past few years has become a zealous collector of a great variety of curious things. Chief among these …

The Fishes Of The Cedar River Basin, Seth E. Meek

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The Cedar River is the second largest river within the State of Iowa, and one of the most picturesque. It, together with its northern tributaries, rises in southern Minnesota. Its general course is southeast to Moscow, about fifteen miles from the Mississippi River; at this point it turns almost at right angles, and flowing south west about thirty miles it empties into the Iowa river.

Catalog Of State Normal School, 1891-92, Iowa State Normal School

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Table of Contents:

Calendar for 1892-93 ... 2
Board of Directors ... 3
Faculty 1892-93 ... 4
Equipment and Organization ... 5
General Rules and Regulations Governing Students ... 8
Courses of Study ... 11
Regular Courses ... 12
High School Graduates ... 16
Professional Course for College Graduates ... 22
General Information ... 25
Expenses ... 30
Graduation ... 32
Boarding and Lodging ... 36
Catalog of Students 1891-92 ... 38
Summary ... 55
Alumni ... 57

Title Pages, Herbert Osborn

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Program, Iowa State Normal School, Winter Term, 1892, Iowa State Normal School

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught at the Iowa State Normal School.

Iowa Mineralogical Notes, Charles Rollin Keyes

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Pyrite-Quite recently there have been obtained from limestone cavities in Lee County some small but very perfect pyrite crystals. The faces are brightly reflecting and meet in sharply defined edges. The more common crystallographic forms are the pentagonal dodecahedron, or pyritohedron, and the cube, with all gradations between the two. Though small they are perhaps the most perfect crystals of this mineral found in the state up to the present time.

Some Reasons Why Frogs Are Able To Survive, Gilman Drew

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The Leopard frog (Rana halecina, Kahn) and allied species occur in considerable numbers and have a wide geographical distribution. Being entirely defenseless, beset by enemies at every turn-fish, reptiles, birds and mammals-as well as being cannibals among themselves, subject to many diseases and the hardships of great extremes of temperature, they are, withal, able to maintain their numbers.

The Relation Of Frost To Certain Plants, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Most persons are familiar with the fact that some plants are much more easily affected by frost than others. The slightest frost will affect plants like Pussly, young corn, beans, twitch grass, tomatoes, squashes, pumpkin, etc. I have watched many plants for some years, but the opportunity of recording temperature in close proximity to the plants have not heretofore been made here, though doubtless some observers have recorded facts, but the references are not at hand. Up to November 4 the following observations were made. In these tables dates and temperatures are recorded only at 32 degrees and below.

On The Structure And Probable Affinities Of Cerionites Dactylioides Owen, S. Calvin

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

In his Report of a Geological Exploration of a part of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois, made under instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in the autumn of the year 1839, Dr. David Dale Owen describes and figures a small fossil from the “Coralline beds of the Upper Magnesian Cliff Limestone of Iowa and Wisconsin,” under the name of Lunnlites? Ductioloides, is described briefly, as follows, on page 68.

Analysis Of Water For Railway Engines, C. O. Bates

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The following is one of a hundred analyses made along the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway. Nearly all the samples are from the State of Iowa. The analysis is supposed to explain itself so far as the results of such an analysis are concerned.

The Seventh Annual Session Of The Iowa Academy Of Sciences:; Membership Of The Academy

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The seventh annual session of the Iowa Academy of Sciences was held in the High School Building at Cedar Rapids December 27 and 28, 1892. The following papers were presented.

Surface Disintegration Of Granitic Masses, Charles Rollin Keyes

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Throughout the drift mantled surface of Iowa, glaciated boulders of crystalline rocks are of common occurrence. They vary in size from a foot to more than fifty feet across. These boulders are rounded more or less, globular in form, though often slightly flattened on one side, sometimes on two. When closely examined, the outside is commonly found to be more or less affected by meteoric agencies, but the interior is fresh and unaltered as a rule. Most of the Iowa boulders are known to be of northern origin, coming from near or beyond the present northern boundary of the United …

On The Absence Of Ferns Between Fort Collins And Meeker Colorado, F. M. Witter

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Partly because of their grace and beauty, and partly because of the small number of species in any given locality and of their singular mode of growth and development, this group of plants has, to me, for many years been of more than common interest. Muscatine County is honored with about twenty-two species of ferns. As a rule these plants seek damp and shaded spots, and it would seem as if some of them will not thrive unless certain conditions of soil, water and exposure are secured. Hence, a rough, rocky region, with springs and more or less swampy ground …

President's Address, C. C. Nutting

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

What we have been doing:- In choosing a subject upon which to address you on this occasion, it occurred to me that it might be profitable to present briefly as possible, the work done by the individual members of the Academy, aside from the papers presented before this body.

Report Of Committee On State Fauna, C. C. Nutting

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

About two months ago the chairman of this committee sent a circular letter to all the members of the Academy asking for notes that could be used in this report. Up to the time of writing, December 19th, only one member has responded to this request, giving an interesting note concerning one species of animal new to the State, and a note concerning the disappearance of the beaver from Big Creek, Tama County.