Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 1

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Contents

• THESUBGROUP OF A GROUP OF FINITE ORDER: 6
• ON THE RADIAL VELOCITIES of Nebulae By W W Campbell: 8
• ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE PROPER MOTIONS AND THE RADIAL VELOCITIES: 14
• CRITIQUE OF THE HYPOTHESIS OF ANOMALOUS DISPERSION IN CERTAIN SOLAR: 21
• CHEMISTRY: 26
• BOTANY: 30
• THE MORPHOLOGY AND RELATIONSHIPS OF PODOMITRIUM MALACCENSE STEPH: 36
• THE FEEBLY INHIBITED I VIOLENT TEMPER AND ITS INHERITANCE: 37
• ARCHEOLOGY OF BARBADOS By J Walter Fewkes: 47
• CONJUGATE SYSTEMS OF SPACE CURVES WITH EQUAL LAPLACEDARBOUX INVARIANTS: 58
• POTASSIUM AMMONO ARGENATE BARATE CALCIATE AND SODATE: 65
• THE ANALYSIS OF LEAD BROMIDE: 71
• A REVISION OF THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF PRASEODYMIUM: 77
• A PHYLOGENETIC STUDY OF CYCADS By Charles J Chamberlain: 86
• AN INTERPRETATION OF SELFSTERILITY By E M East: 95
• THE FEEBLY INHIBITED II NOMADISM OR THE WANDERING IMPULSE WITH SPECIAL: 120
• AN ATTEMPT TO MEASURE THE FREE ELECTRICITY IN THE SUNS ATMOSPHERE: 123
• VARIABILITY OF SPECTRUM LINES IN THE IRON: 131
• AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LIPOLYTIC ACTIONS By K George Falk: 136
• THE HYDRATION OF THE IONS OF CESIUM CHLORIDE DERIVED FROM TRANSFERENCE: 142
• THE FERTILIZING POWER OF SPERM DILUTIONS OF ARBACIA By Frank R Lillie: 156
• ON THE RADIAL VELOCITIES OF FIVE NEBULAE IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS: 183
• ON CHONDROSAMINE By P A Levene and F B La Forge: 190
• MOLECULAR REARRANGEMENTS OF TRIPHENYLMETHANE DERIVATIVES I GENERAL: 196
• MOLECULAR REARRANGEMENTS OF TRIPHENYLMETHANE DERIVATIVES II EXPERI: 202
• ECOLOGY OF THE MURRAY ISLAND CORAL REEF By Alfred Goldsborough Mayer: 211
• SOME EXPERIMENTS ON SPERMATOGENESIS IN VITRO By Richard Goldschmidt: 220
• GROWTH AND VARIATION IN MAIZE By Raymond Pearl and Frank M Surface: 222
• THE STUDY OF INDIAN MUSIC By Alice C Fletcher: 231
• THE SECOND DERIVATIVES OF THE EXTREMAL INTEGRAL FOR A GENERAL CLASS: 238
• THE DIFFUSION OF HORSE CULTURE AMONG THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: 254
• SOME PROBLEMS IN STELLAR PHOTOMETRY By Joel Stebbins: 259
• ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE LINE 4686A AND THE RELATED SERIES OF LINES IN: 266
• THE STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX ATOMS AND THE CHANGES OF MASS AND WEIGHT: 276
• HUNTINGTONS CHOREA IN RELATION TO HEREDITY AND EUGENICS By C B Davenport: 283
• THE ALCYONARIA AS A FACTOR IN REEF LIMESTONE FORMATION By L R Cary: 285
• TRANSFORMATIONS OF CONJUGATE SYSTEMS WITH EQUAL INVARIANTS: 290
• INHERITANCE IN THE ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION OF HYDRA VIRIDIS By K S Lashley: 298
• ABSOLUTE SCALES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC AND PHOTOVISUAL MAGNITUDE: 309
• MITOSIS IN TRICHOMONAS By Charles Atwood Kofoid and Olive Swezy: 315
• CONFIRMATORY EXPERIMENTS ON THE VALUE OF THE SOLAR CONSTANT OF RADIATION: 331
• VARIATION OF FLOWER SIZE IN NICOTIANA By T H Goodspeed and R E Clausen: 333
• PARTHENOCARPY AND PARTHENOGENESIS IN NICOTIANA By T H Goodspeed: 341
• EXOGAMY AND THE CLASSIFICATory System of Relationship By Robert H Lowie: 346
• SOLUTION OF AN INFINITE SYSTEM OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF THE ANALYTIC: 350
• SEX RATIO IN PIGEONS TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE LAYING INCUBATION: 354
• PARABOLIC ORBITS OF METEOR STREAMS By Charles P Olivier: 358
• A METHOD OF OBTAINING COMPLETE GERMINATION OF SEEDS IN OENOTHERA AND: 360
• THE OSMOTIC PRESSURE OF THE IONS AND OF THE UNDISSOCIATED MOLECULES: 363
• UNSYMMETRICAL LINES IN TUBEARC AND SPARK SPECTRA AS AN EVIDENCE OF A DIS: 371
• THE DIRECTION OF ROTATION OF SUNSPOT VORTICES By George E Hale: 382
• NOVA GEMINORUM No 2 as a WOLFRAYET STAR: 391
• THE DETERMINATION OF SURFACETENSION By T W Richards and L B Coombs: 404
• AN EXHIBIT IN PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY By Aleš Hrdlička: 407
• THE COMPRESSIBILITIES OF THE ELEMENTS AND THEIR RELATIONS TO OTHER PROPERTIES: 411
• RADIAL VELOCITIES WITHIN THE GREAT NEBULA OF ORION By Edwin B Frost: 416
• LOCALIZATION OF THE HEREDITARY MATERIAL IN THE GERM CELLS By T H Morgan: 420
• ON THE REPRESENTATION OF ARBITRARY FUNCTIONS BY DEFINITE INTEGRALS: 431
• By William Duncan MacMillan: 437
• THE LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION OF POTAWATOMI By Truman Michelson: 450
• THE LIGHT CURVE OF XX CYGNI AS A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF CEPHEID: 452
• THE FEEBLY INHIBITED III INHERITANCE OF TEMPERAMENT WITH SPECIAL REFER: 456
• SECOND TYPE STARS of Low MEAN DENSITY By Harlow Shapley: 459
• THE INDIAN AND NATURE By Alice C Fletcher: 467
• A NOTATION FOR USE IN THE DISCUSSION OF STAR COLORS By Frederick H Seares: 481
• WHY POLAR BODIES DO NOT DEVELOP By Edwin G Conklin: 491
• RADIAL VELOCITIES OF THE PLANETARY AND IRREGULAR NEBULAE: 496
• THE OCTOPUS MOTIVE IN ANCIENT CHIRIQUIan Art By George Grant MacCurdy: 499
• THE LIFE CYCLE OF TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI IN THE RAT AND IN RAT PLASMA: 504
• ON ISOTHERMALLY CONJUGATE NETS OF SPACE CURves By Gabriel M Green: 516
• THE POTENTIALS AT THE JUNCTIONS OF SALT SOLUTIONS By Duncan A MacInnes: 526
• A STATISTICAL STUDY OF THE VISUAL DOUBLE STARS IN THE NORTHERN: 530
• WALNUT MUTANT INVESTIGATIONS By Ernest B Babcock: 535
• EXPERIMENTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIMBS IN AMPHIBIA By Ross G Harrison: 539
• ON THE LIFE HISTORY OF GIARDIA: 547
• EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGIN AND RELATIONSHIP OF BLOOD CORPUSCLES: 556
• THE CHILD AND THE TRIBE By Alice C Fletcher: 569
• THE SURFACETENSION AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN TWO LIQUIDS: 585
• OUTLINE OF A PROPOSED SYSTEM OF CLASSIFICATION OF THE NEBULAE BY MEANS: 590
• Some Probable Identities in Wavelength in Nebular and Stellar SpecTRA: 596
• PSYCHOLOGY: 605
• VARIATION AND INHERITANCE IN ABNORMALITIES OCCURRING AFTER CONJUGATION: 608
• THE INFLUENCE OF THE MARGINAL ORGANS ON FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY IN CASSIOPEA: 611
• HERITABLE VARIATIONS AND THE RESULTS OF SELECTION IN THE FISSION RATE: 616
• THE RELATIVE STIMULATING EFFICIENCY OF SPECTRAL COLORS FOR THE LOWER: 622
• DEFINITION OF LIMIT IN GENERAL INTEGRAL ANALYSIS By Eliakim Hastings Moore: 628
• PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY: 634
• THE NATURE OF NERVE CONDUCTION IN CASSIOPEA By Alfred Goldsborough Mayer 270: 641

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 1
• Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
• Publisher: National Academy of Sciences, 1915
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Aug 8, 2007