Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-26
SCIENTISTS WILL MEET.
Iowa Academy Of Sciences Meets at Des
Moines Next Week.

Iowa Academy Of Sciences Meets at Des
Moines Next Week.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec. 26.-The annual
meeting of the Iowa Academy of Sci
ences will be held in Des Moines next
week. The sessions will be held in the
rooms of the State Geological Society in
the state capitol for two days, begin
ming on Tuesday at o'clock p. m. This
will be the seventeenth annual meet
ing of the association. The papers are
being published annually by the state
and form valuable collection of scien-
tific papers. The annual addresses of
the presidents are papers of high char
acter and general interest This year
President FL. e. Summers Is to deliver
an address on THE Problem of Heredi-
ty." The report of the committee on
pure food legislation or food adultera-
tons will be interesting. Professor
Weems is at the head of this commit
tee and the committee has been making
some Investigations covering a number
of years which are of general interest
Iin connection with authorizations. While
many of the papers read are of tech
meal nature, others are of general in
|terest. One that is sure to be timely
will be that of Professor MacBride, of
the State University, on the irrigation
problem. Professor MacBride is also to
deliver an illustrated lecture on
Wednesday evening before a joint
meeting of the Academy and the sci
ence teachers round table of the State
Teachers Association on the Desert
of Sonora" The following is full list
of the papers to be read at the Academy
meeting:
Some Neglected Factors in Our Irri-
CATION Problems''-Thomas H. Mac
Bride.
Some Cladonia Talus Formations
g. Fink.
Living Plants as Geological Factors''
-B. Shimek.
The Origin Of the Lignites of North
Dakota"-Frank A. Wildner.
THE Sioux City Water Supply. H.
Alfred N. Cook and w. j. Morgan.
'srhe Preparation Of Phenylether''-
Alfred N. Cook.
Smallpox in the Public Schools
L. H. Ford.
''The Membrane Bones of the Skull OF
the Amphiuma'-H w. Norris.
''The Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Cra-
NAL Nerves of the Amphiuma" w.
Norris
THE Solar Surface During the Past
Twelve Years"--David T.. Haddon.
Contribution for the Chemical La
boratory of Cornell llege"-Nicholas
knight.
1.-The Toledo Lobe of the Iowan Drift"
IT. f. Savage.
"The Flora of the Uinta Mountains"
IL. II. Pammel.
Genesis Of Certain Charts &C arles
e. Keyes.
Significance of the Occurrence Of
Minute Quantities of Metallic Minerals
in Roeks"--Charles r. Keyes.
Comparative Values of Different
Methods of Geologic Correlation in the
Basin"-Charles r. Keyes.
Report of the Committee on Food
B. Weems.
1.-THE Chemical Composition of Some
of the Native Nuts of Iowa.. B.
Weems and Alice Ward Hess.
1.-The Preparation OF Ammonia Free
Water for Water Analysis. B.
Weenas and E. C. Myers.
.The Accretion of Flood Plains by
Means of Sand Bars"-Howard E.
Simpson.
"a Serious Root Disease"-H. Harold
Hume.
New Method Of Cohesion Of Water
and Adhesion of Mercury Apparatus
Edwin Morrison.
apparatus for the Verifcation of
Pascals Law'--Edwin Morrison.
Some Observations Upon the Action
CT Coherers When Subjected to Electro
Motive Force''-Franlk F. Almy.
"a Study In Psychopathic Heredity"
T.. Saunders.
FERTILIZATION and Attendant Phe-
in Asclepias and Acerates'-
T c. Eyre.
"Some Observations on the Duck
Hawk (Falco Peregrinus Ovatum) in
Iowa"-B. III. Bailey.
Notes on Some New Species of Fun
Fl from Alabama"-George w. Carver.
Comparative Tests of Reversible
Voltaic Cell"--L. Begeman.