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Forest Vegetation Of The Upper Mississippi, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The paper before the Academy consisted in a verbal communication of the salient features of the forest vegetation. It was afterward written out in full and sent to Garden and Forest (See Vol. IV. pp. 460, 472 and 531). As the paper may be of general interest to Iowa readers I give it essentially as it appeared in Garden and Forest. A few notes have been added.

Report Of The Committee On State Flora, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The several catalogues of the flora of Iowa (Arthur, Bessey), as well as the early contributions by the late Dr. Parry and briefer articles and notices in journals and Gray's Manual give us a pretty accurate knowledge of the phaenogams and vascular cryptogams found in Iowa. In most cases, however, the range of species is not given. With a number of excellent local collectors in the field a lively interest has been awakened in collecting and bringing together information. Since the appointment of this committee one important contribution to the State Flora has been published. I refer to Prof. Hitchcock's …

Some Fungus Diseases Of Iowa Forage Plants, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The subject was treated under the following heads: Rust, smut, mildews, spot diseases and bacterial diseases. The synonomy is that given by Saccardo, "Sylioge Fungornm." The locality is Ames, and species were mostly observed by myself.

Bacteria Of Milk, Cream And Cheese, With Exhibition Of Cultures, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Some twenty or thirty different cultures were exhibited, partly obtained from milk, butter and cheese and some from rotting beets etc. The method of obtaining pure cultures with gelatin and agar cultures was explained. The action of some of the bacteria on milk is rendering milk sour. The souring of milk is not due to a single germ, but a large number have the power of changing milk sugar into lactic acid. Of the many lactic acid genus some are especially important in giving the proper aroma to cream, and the butter made from it. Certain species of bacteria render …

Systematic Zoology In Colleges, C. C. Nutting

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

A few months ago one of the curators of the Smithsonian Institution took occasion, in private conversation, to complain of the fact that our universities and colleges did not turn out men capable of taking hold of a collection of zoological specimens and working it up systematically. He said: "We can find plenty of students from Johns Hopkins, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, etc., who can do good work if they are put to investigating the embryology of a single species, or writing a thesis on the histology of certain organs. But we have great difficulty in finding men who …

Oviposition Of Anomalon Sp., C. P. Gillette

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

While passing an apple tree August 18, on which were a brood of Datana ministra larvae about one-third grown, my attention was attracted by the presence of a large Hymenopterous parasite busily ovipositing in their soft bodies and apparently much to their discomfort. The parasite was a large black Anomalon sp. not in my collection, unless, possibly, it is a variety of A. pallitarse Cress. It differs from Cresson's description by having its middle and hind pairs of legs entirely black and its face and antennae entirely yellow.

A New Cecidomid Infesting Box-Elder (Negundo Aceroides), C. P. Gillette

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The galls are produced from terminal buds on all parts of the tree, and each is made up of a number of transformed leaves and petioles, arranged in pairs opposite each other, in which the two leaves are opposite. They are sub-globular in outline and vary from less than one-half of an inch to nearly an inch in diameter. The outer basal portion of the gall is formed by an enormous enlargement of the bases of the petioles of two leaves which unite and form a receptacle like the cup of an acorn, holding the inner portions of the gall. …

Program, Iowa State Normal School, Fall Term, 1889, Iowa State Normal School

UNI Schedule of Classes

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

Program, Iowa State Normal School, Spring Term, 1889, Iowa State Normal School

UNI Schedule of Classes

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

Program, Iowa State Normal School, Winter Term, 1889, Iowa State Normal School

UNI Schedule of Classes

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

Catalog Of State Normal School, 1888-89, Iowa State Normal School

UNI Programs and Courses Catalogs

Table of Contents:

Calendar for 1889-90 ... 2
Board of Directors ... 3
Faculty ... 4
Courses of Study ... 5
Regular Courses ... 6
The Supplementary Course for High-School Graduates ... 10
The Professional Course for College Graduates ... 14
General Information ... 16
Expenses ... 18
Graduation ... 21
Text-Books Used ... 22
Rules and Regulations ... 23
Regulations Applying to the Boarding Department ... 25
Catalog of Students 1888-89 ... 36
Summary ... 46
Alumni ... 48

Commencement, 1889, Iowa State Normal School

UNI Commencement Programs

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

Notes On The Native Forest Trees Of Eastern Arkansas, R. Ellsworth Call

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

During the summers of 1888 and 1889 opportunity was presented the writer, in connection with geologic work on the Geological Survey, to study somewhat carefully the tree flora of the region east of the Iron Mountain Railroad and north of the Arkansas River.

Some Fungous Diseases Of Fruit Trees In Iowa, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Last summer while investigating a cotton disease in Texas, Mr. R. D. Blackshaw called my attention to a disease among some of his Le Conte pear trees.

Proceedings Of The Iowa Academy Of Sciences For 1889

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The third annual session of the Academy was held in the city of Des Moines on September 5th, 1889, in the Science Rooms of the High School Building. There were present a goodly number of the working naturalists of the State. At this session the following papers were presented, and are given here in abstract.

A Cherry Disease, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The past season has been a very severe one on a good many of our cherry trees in the experimental orchards at Ames. Several kinds of parasitic fungi have been especially common.

Life History And Embryology Of Monostegia (Selandria) Ignotia (Nor), Frederick W. Mally

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

This paper was a brief extract, giving the more important results of a study of the above named species as effecting the strawberry and included in a thesis prepared for the degree of Master of Science at the Iowa Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa, and is published in Insect Life, Vol. II.

Beggiatoa Alba And The Dying Of Fish In Iowa, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The secretary of the State Board of Health found fish dying in great numbers at Tama City, Marshalltown and Des Moines.

Is The Plum Curculio Double-Brooded?, C. P. Gillette

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

In this paper it was concluded that the plum curculio is not wholly or even very largely double-brooded at Ames, Iowa.

The Blue Quail (Callipepla Squamata) In Iowa, J. E. Todd

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

A specimen of this bird was exhibited, which was shot at Tabor, Iowa, May 20, 1889. The occurrence of this species, which ranges from Texas southward, was connected with the mildness of the past winter, and the great reduction in numbers of the common quail, in southwestern Iowa for the last few years.

Observations On The Keokuk Species Of Agaricocrinus, C. H. Gordon

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Six species of Agaricocrinus obtained from the Keokuk beds, of which three, viz: A. americanus Roemer; A. whitfieldi Hall; and A. worthem Hall, occur at Keokuk.

On The Geology Of Eastern Arkansas, R. Ellsworth Call

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

This paper was a continuation and extension of the one presented at the meeting of 1888, and like it was based on the field work done under the auspices of the Arkansas Geological survey. The area studied was much more extensive than that reported on in the preceding year.

The Ferns Of Muscatine County, Iowa, F. M. Witter

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The following ferns have been noted or collected by me in Muscatine County. They are included in thirteen genera and twenty species.

On The Distribution Of Certain Hemiptera, Herbert Osborn

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The Hemiptera present some instructing cases of special distribution, a few of which are considered. The relation of the distribution to distribution of food plants is discussed and cases cited where there is apparently entire independence of climate, latitude, altitude, etc.

Additions To The Catalogue Of Iowa Hemiptera, Herbert Osborn

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The additions to my list of two years ago presented in this contribution number thirty and I have a few species undetermined that can probably be included by the time the full list is published.

The Native Food Fishes Of Iowa, Seth E. Meek

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

In the waters of Iowa, including the Mississippi River along her eastern border, are found about one hundred species of fishes, of these about thirty-six are usually found in our markets, and are regarded as food fishes of more or less value.

The Crystalline Rocks Of Missouri, Erasmus Haworth

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

In the May and June numbers American Geologist the writer published a preliminary description and classification of the crystalline rock of Missouri. Since that time considerable more field work has been done, and much new material gathered which is now being examined in the laboratory.

Pearl Bearing Unios, F. M. Witter

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract available – No text presented.

Notes On A Fossil Wood From The Keokuk Limestone, Keokuk, Iowa, C. H. Gordon

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Some years since a portion of supposed fossil wood was obtained from an eighteen inch limestone layer about six or eight feet below the Geode bed. It was secure by Mr. S. J. Wallace and placed in the rooms of the Keokuk Library Association. A brief mention was made of it in a letter to the editors of the American Journal of Science and Arts, as noted in the May issue of 1878.

On The Keokuk Beds And Their Contained Fossils In The Vicinity Of Keokuk, Iowa, C. H. Gordon

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Outside the region covered by this paper, the most notable exposure of this formation occurs at Crawfordsville, Indiana, where its thickness is said to be two hundred and eighty feet. South of the Iowa line, exposures occur along the Mississippi in limited areas, and southwestward in Missouri, yielding most of the lead in that region.