Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, Volume - 55, Year - 1976
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
AUTHOR NAME 
PAGE
Minutes of the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Sciences 
5
Committee Reports:
Junior Academy 
5
Outgoing Presidential Address 
5
Secretary-Treasurer 
6
Auditing Committee 
6
Collegiate Section 
6
Special Awards Committee 
6
Conservation Committee 
6
Resolutions Committee 
7
Memorial Statements 
7
Membership Committee 
9
Nominations Committee 
9
Old Business 
10
New Business 
10
Treasurer's Report 
11
Minutes of the Junior Academy of Science 
13
Membership Lists:
Senior Academy 
14
Collegiate Section 
17
Junior Academy 
18
Presidential Address 
19
Senior Research Papers Presented at the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science:
Soil Temperature Fields Associated with Saline Seeps. 
D.B. Aaron, J. A. Tunheim and Donald G. Moore 
25
Developmental Mechanics of Chick Embryo Conjunctival Papilla Formation. 
Richard R. McClaflin and Leland G. Johnson 
37
Vegetative Propagation of the Celery Plant by Tissue Culture. 
C. H. Chen 
44
Habitat Evaluation Along Proposed Municipal Water Supply Alinements. Part I: Cresbard, South Dakota. 
Gary B. Peterson 
49
Landsat Imagery as an Indicator of Prairie Lake Algal Blooms and Water Transparency. 
Brian Thoreson, Lois Haertel and Donald G. Moore 
56
Computer Generated Spatial Maps of South Dakota Using Legal Descriptions Converted to Cartesian Coordinates. 
C. G. Carlson, M. L. Horton and J. L. Wiersma 
73
Resistance of Corn to a South Dakota Isolate of Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus. 
Mei-Ping Chang, W. H. Sill, Jr., and W. S. Gardner 
80
Ultrastructural Effects of 4.0 Ug/Ml Cytochalasin B on Postblastoeyst Development in Mice. 
Nels H. Granholm and Hans A. Draayer 
85
Chemical Composition and Variability of Some Common Feeds Used in South Dakota. 
Howard H. Voelker and Andrew W. Halverson 
91
Relationship of Activity and Obesity in Genetically Obese Yellow (AY/a) Mice. 
Gerald R. Cizadlo, Nels H. Granholm and Gregory W. Bown 
97
Differential Substratum Attachment of Denuded Pre-implantation Mouse Embryos in Vitro. 
Edwin D.Oliver and Nels H. Granholm 
100
Effects of 4.0 Ug/Ml Cytochalasin B on Early Mouse Embryogenesis. 
Nels H. Granholm and George M. Brenner 
106
Use of Seed Size in Estimating Wheat Yield Losses Due to Disease in Small Plot Fungicide Trials. 
G. W. Buchenau 
113
Toxicity of Sodium Selenite to Chick Embryos. 
C. L. Hills and Robert Coolidge 
118
Embryology of the Sympathetic Nervous System of the Frog. 
Carroll Eggee Hanten 
123
Calorimetric Effects of Magnetic Fluxoids in Type-II Superconductors. 
Don C. Hopkins and Mark A. Howe 
130
The Coherent Potential Approximation Applied to Amorphous Magnetic Systems. 
L. A. Wheeler and J. D. Patterson 
134
Infinite Series on Valuated Rings. 
Kevin Fisher and Emil F. Knapp 
139
The Effect of Absorbed Moisture Upon the Thermal Conductivity of Wheat. 
W. R. Betten, L. J. Dorland, D. R. Smith and T. Ashworth 
144
A New Optical Design for Background Compensation for Flame and Flameless Atomic Emission. 
David C. Hilderbrand 
148
Mammalian Tracks from the Brule Formation of South Dakota. 
Philip R. Bjork 
154
Collegiate Research Papers Presented at the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science:
A Comparative Study of Two Ring Valuations. 
Richard Burgess 
160
Infinite Series on Valuated Ordered Rings. 
Kevin Fisher 
163
Construction and Evaluation of a Vibrating Coil Magnetometer. 
Brian A. Freese, Galen Lee Johnson and Jack A. Weyland 
166
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Senior Section 
172 
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Collegiate Section 
194
Junior Academy Award Winner 
197
Junior Abstracts 
198