Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, Volume - 19, Year - 1939.

TABLE OF CONTENTS  

AUTHOR NAME  

PAGE

Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting  

  

4

Business Session  

  

5

Program  

  

8

Teaching Techniques in the Light of New Demands Made Upon Science - Presidential Address.  

Ward L.Miller  

11

The Adsorption of Selenium by Certain Inorganic Colloids.  

Oscar E. Olson  

22

The Effect of Low Concentration of Selenium Upon the Growth of Grain.  

George W. Stanford and Oscar E.Olson  

25

The Problem of Buffering Fermentation Media.  

A.  R. Kendall  

32

Productivity of Plants Grown from Seeds Soaked in Water.  

H. Clyde Eyster  

44

Some Systematic Implications of the Concept of Threshold.  

H. R. Fossler  

47

The Concentration of Vitamin D in the Blood of Dairy Cattle as Compared with the Potency of the Milk Produced.  

G.  C. Wallis  

55

The Cretaceous Overlap in Southeastern South Dakota.  

E P. Rothrock  

61

The Selenium Content of Grasshoppers Found Feeding on Seleniferous Vegetation.  

Alvin L. Moxon  

69

The Effect of Glutathione on Selenium Toxicity.  

Kenneth P.DuBois, Morris Rhian, and Alvin L. Moxon  

71

Further Investigation of the Gamma Rays from Cadmium Under Slow Neutron Bombardment.  

W.  H.Jordan  

75

Thirty Years of Soil Fertility Investigations in South Dakota.  

J.  Gladden Hutton  

77

A Physiological Comparison of Virgin and Cultivated Soils in Southeastern South Dakota.  

James Russel Hurt and H. Clyde Eyster  

82

Some Unexpected Species of Arthropoda Found in South Dakota.  

H.  C. Severin  

86

A Study of the Green Pigments in the Lotus Embryo.  

Robert Stewart and H. Clyde Eyster  

89

Linkage on the Sex Chromosome of Habrobracon.  

Magnhild Page Torvick Greb and Raymond J. Greb  

92

A Previously Undescribed Euglenoid Form.  

Dallas Meyer and Edw.  P. Churchill  

96

A Comparative Study of Liver Glycogen Values of Control Selenium, and Selenium-Arsenic Rats.  

Richard L.Potter, Kenneth P. DuBois, and Alvin L. Moxon  

99

Erosion of Water Plants.  

Howard C. Abbott  

107

The Effect of Selenium and Arsenic at Various Ratios on the Fermentation of Glucose by Baker's Yeast.  

Henry A. Lardy and Alvin L. Moxon  

109

The Chlorination of Carbon Chains.  

Max I. Bowman  

112

An Adaptation of the Bodansky Method for Phosphorus to the Photoelectric Colorimeter.  

Morris Rhian  

115

A Method of Preparing Cartilage Skeletons.  

John F.Tannheimer  

118

Preparation of Higher Alcohols by the Grignard Method.  

Victor S. Webster and Arnold E. Schaefer  

124

Preliminary Report of the Chemistry of Gum Ghatti.  

Delbert Hanna, Leo McReynolds and Edwin H. Shaw, Jr.  

130