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Physiology Of Ethylene Production, Use, And Reactions In Plants, R. C. Nelson Apr 1938

Physiology Of Ethylene Production, Use, And Reactions In Plants, R. C. Nelson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Hiemenz's Study Of The Heron Lake Franklin's Gull Colony, George W. Friedrich Apr 1938

Hiemenz's Study Of The Heron Lake Franklin's Gull Colony, George W. Friedrich

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


List Of Twenty-Two Species Of Monogenetic Trematodes From The South Pacific, F. G. Meserve Apr 1938

List Of Twenty-Two Species Of Monogenetic Trematodes From The South Pacific, F. G. Meserve

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


A Preliminary Report On A Study Of College Science Courses Considered Valuable By High School Science Teachers, G. M. Wissink Apr 1938

A Preliminary Report On A Study Of College Science Courses Considered Valuable By High School Science Teachers, G. M. Wissink

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Notes On The Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) Of Arkansas, Avery Freeman Apr 1938

Notes On The Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) Of Arkansas, Avery Freeman

Field and Laboratory

Between the years 1926 and 1937, the writer made a general study of the Lepidoptera of Arkansas, paying special attention to the Sphingidae. During the period thirty-two species in twenty-one genera were collected, and their relations studied.


Established And Supposed Examples Of Meteoritic Craters And Structures, John D. Boon, Claude C. Albritton Jr. Apr 1938

Established And Supposed Examples Of Meteoritic Craters And Structures, John D. Boon, Claude C. Albritton Jr.

Field and Laboratory

Meteor Crater of Arizona, three-quarters of a mile across and six hundred feet deep, with its walls of tilted and faulted strata and its encircling high rim of pulverized and brecciated rock, is a spectacle for the student of land forms, of geologic structures, and of katamorphic processes. Standing on its rim, one is impressed by the fact that crater­forming meteorites are extraterrestrial agents that are truly catastrophic in their geological effects. However, the relative importance of giant meteorites among the agents that shape the landscape and deform or break rocks depends upon the distribution of meteorite scars in space …


The Impact Of Large Meteorites, John D. Boon, Claude C. Albritton Jr. Apr 1938

The Impact Of Large Meteorites, John D. Boon, Claude C. Albritton Jr.

Field and Laboratory

The speed of meteorites at the time they reach the surface of the earth depends largely upon the resistance they have encountered in passing through the atmosphere and upon the hour of day that they fall.


Individualism And Collectivism In Nature, Wm. Carpenter Maccarty Apr 1938

Individualism And Collectivism In Nature, Wm. Carpenter Maccarty

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


The Search For Natural History Areas In Minnesota, A. N. Wilcox, W. J. Breckenridge, R. L. Donovan, T. B. Magath, H. E. Stork, Gustav Swanson Apr 1938

The Search For Natural History Areas In Minnesota, A. N. Wilcox, W. J. Breckenridge, R. L. Donovan, T. B. Magath, H. E. Stork, Gustav Swanson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Effect Of Colchicine On Chromosome Number And Cell Size In Some Horticultural Plants, Catharine Lunt Becker Apr 1938

Effect Of Colchicine On Chromosome Number And Cell Size In Some Horticultural Plants, Catharine Lunt Becker

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Some Higher Fungi In The Vicinity Of Winona, Sister M. Sylvia Apr 1938

Some Higher Fungi In The Vicinity Of Winona, Sister M. Sylvia

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


A Survey Of Father John Katzner's Horticultural Work, Adelard Thuente Apr 1938

A Survey Of Father John Katzner's Horticultural Work, Adelard Thuente

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Back Matter Apr 1938

Back Matter

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Studies Of Mexican And Central American Plants - Iv, C. L. Lundell Nov 1937

Studies Of Mexican And Central American Plants - Iv, C. L. Lundell

Field and Laboratory

During July, 1937, the writer and Mrs. Lundell botanized along the Laredo-Mexico City highway as far south as Santa Ana, Hidalgo. A week was spent at Tamazunchale, San Luis Potosi, where the largest series of plants was obtained.


The Magdalena Valley Of Colombia: A Geographical Reconnaissance, J. C. Kearby, R. D. Everett Nov 1937

The Magdalena Valley Of Colombia: A Geographical Reconnaissance, J. C. Kearby, R. D. Everett

Field and Laboratory

The Magdalena River, which rises on the slopes of Papas Peak, at the junction of the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Oriental of the northern Andes, flows northward through the heart of Colombia to the Caribbean Sea, to form the country's leading highway. From its source, the river winds its way through 1,000 miles of jungle to Barranquilla, the principal Colombian port on the Caribbean. The Valley extends some seventy-five kilometers laterally, terminating in the foothills of the Central and Oriental Cordilleras.


Note On The Origin Of Tiffin Hole, Iowa, John D. Boon, Claude C. Albritton Jr. Nov 1937

Note On The Origin Of Tiffin Hole, Iowa, John D. Boon, Claude C. Albritton Jr.

Field and Laboratory

In describing the crater-like depression a quarter of a mile south of Tiffin, Iowa, Professor C. C. Wylie emphasized the need for criteria to distinguish depressions caused by meteoritic explosions from those formed by other agencies. He was able to show that this elliptical depression 100 ft. long, 75 ft. across, and about eight feet deep, is not a sink hole, buffalo wallow, artificial pond, or initial depression in glacial drift.… rofessor Wylie considered the possibility of a meteoritic origin, but was unable to discover convincing field evidence to support this hypothesis. The writers suggest that Tiffin Hole is a …


Diatoms As A Source For California Petroleum: A Summary Review, Fred B. Phleger Jr., Claude C. Albritton Jr. Nov 1937

Diatoms As A Source For California Petroleum: A Summary Review, Fred B. Phleger Jr., Claude C. Albritton Jr.

Field and Laboratory

The diatom has been variously regarded as the major source, as an accessory source, and as a doubtful source for California petroleum. The two main lines of evidence cited by upholders of the first view are: (1) the intimate association of diatomaceous deposits with the majority of oil producing areas in the state, and (2) the observed ability of living diatoms to manufacture oil, which under favorable conditions could be stored in contemporaneous sediments. Opposed to this view are the facts that (1) some petroliferous areas in the state produce from horizons high above the postulated diatomaceous source beds, (2) …


Color Phases In Helicina Orbiculata Tropica 'Jan' Pfr., E. P. Cheatum, Betty Watt Brooks Nov 1937

Color Phases In Helicina Orbiculata Tropica 'Jan' Pfr., E. P. Cheatum, Betty Watt Brooks

Field and Laboratory

An interesting shell-color phase occurs in Helicina orbiculata tropica ’Jan.’ Pfr., a small land snail found in abund ance in northeastern, southern, and central Texas. Pilsbry and Ferris have noted color variations in this species, stating that "some colonies are all white; others are mingled with red or blue shells".


Dinosaur Tracks At The Fourth Crossing Of The Paluxy River Near Glen Rose, Texas, Ellis W. Shuler Apr 1937

Dinosaur Tracks At The Fourth Crossing Of The Paluxy River Near Glen Rose, Texas, Ellis W. Shuler

Field and Laboratory

Erosion has laid bare at least eight localities in Somervell County, Texas, showing dinosaur tracks in the Glen Rose limestone. It is with keen regret that this article records the disappearance of one of the most notable of these exhibits, the well known track locality at the fourth crossing of the Paluxy River, about four miles west of the town of Glen Rose. Stream erosion, which brought to view there a superb collection of tracks, continued its work too well and wiped out the exhibit as an eraser wipes out a school­boy's blackboard drawing.


Notes On The Acrididae (Orthoptera) Of Iowa, Herbert Knutson Apr 1937

Notes On The Acrididae (Orthoptera) Of Iowa, Herbert Knutson

Field and Laboratory

Considerable taxonomic work has been published on the grasshoppers of many of the midwestern states, such as that of Hebard on species of South Dakota ('25), Kansas ('31), Minnesota ('32), and Illinois ('34). Also, some work of economic character has been done in each of the mid­western states.


Age Of The Malone Fauna, Claude C. Albritton Jr. Apr 1937

Age Of The Malone Fauna, Claude C. Albritton Jr.

Field and Laboratory

The geological age of the Malone fauna, described in 1905 by Cragin, has been a subject of considerable uncertainty…. The writer spent the summers of 1934 and 1935 in the Malone area, mapping it with plane table on a scale of one inch to a thousand feet. Extensive collections of fossils gathered at both old and new localities were referred to twenty-five carefully measured stratigraphical sections.


Blue Sun: A Colloidal Explanation, Phil Wagley Apr 1937

Blue Sun: A Colloidal Explanation, Phil Wagley

Field and Laboratory

During a severe duststorm at Dallas, Texas, on March 17, 1935, the disk of the sun appeared deep blue in color. The dust of the storm was composed largely of small grains of quartz, floating in the atmosphere at a great height, perhaps 12,000 feet or more. Reports from the Dallas Airport Station indicated that the duststorms that came during the spring of 1935 often reached this height, and at times the ceiling was 13,500 feet. In western Texas and Oklahoma, these duststorms frequently produced high potential electrical charges in the atmosphere, causing sparks to be drawn from metal parts …


Pectinatella Magnifica Leidy An Occasional River-Pest In Iowa, S. W. Geiser Apr 1937

Pectinatella Magnifica Leidy An Occasional River-Pest In Iowa, S. W. Geiser

Field and Laboratory

The common fresh-water Bryozoan, Pectinatella magnifica Leidy, with which this paper deals, is widely distributed in the United States, Northern Germany, and Czechoslovakia.


Meteorite Scars In Ancient Rocks, John D. Boon, Claude C. Albritton Jr. Apr 1937

Meteorite Scars In Ancient Rocks, John D. Boon, Claude C. Albritton Jr.

Field and Laboratory

In a previous paper the writers suggested that some explosion structures currently attributed to volcanism may actually record impacts of giant meteorites which fell during the geological past. It is the purpose of this article to show how meteorite craters and their underlying structures might be preserved, and to evaluate the meteoritic hypothesis as an explanation for three structures which tentatively have been assigned to other origins.


Daily Light Ration And Gonadal Activity In The English Sparrow, Passer Domesticus, A. R. Ringoen, A. Kirschbaum Jan 1937

Daily Light Ration And Gonadal Activity In The English Sparrow, Passer Domesticus, A. R. Ringoen, A. Kirschbaum

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


How Two Captive Young Beavers Constructed A Food Pile, Thos. S. Roberts Jan 1937

How Two Captive Young Beavers Constructed A Food Pile, Thos. S. Roberts

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


The Comparative Permeability Of Woods To Liquids, Harvey D. Erickson Jan 1937

The Comparative Permeability Of Woods To Liquids, Harvey D. Erickson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


Studies Of Prenatal Development In Farm Animals, L. M. Winters Jan 1937

Studies Of Prenatal Development In Farm Animals, L. M. Winters

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The central objective of these studies has been to gather as accurate data as possible regarding normal prenatal development in farm animals. Once this is established as a base we or other workers will be in a position to study the specific effects of unfavorable environments, such as deficiency rations, excess fat, etc. Our work has progressed far enough so that we are now incorporating some of the latter in our studies.


The Fate Of The Indigenous, Arthur N. Wilcox Jan 1937

The Fate Of The Indigenous, Arthur N. Wilcox

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.


The Birds Of Minnesota Point, Olga Lakela Jan 1937

The Birds Of Minnesota Point, Olga Lakela

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.