Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, Volume - 60, Year - 1981

TABLE OF CONTENTS  

AUTHOR NAME  

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Minutes of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science  

5

Committee Reports  

5

Report of the Treasurer  

12

Membership Lists  

13

Presidential Address.  

15

Senior Research Papers Presented at the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science:

Effects of the Lethal Yellow Gene (AY) on Reproductive Performance in Strain C57BL/6J Mice.  

Nels H. Granholm and Kevin T. Brock  

24

Genotype Identification (+/T) and +/t^{w 32}) Transmission Rate as Determined by Tail Lengths of BALB/cBYJ- B-TBRTF/Nev F. Progeny'.  

Nels H. Granholm and Traci Van Arsdale  

29

Cytological Uniformity in Callus Culture-Derived Big Bluestem Plants (Andropogon gerardii Vitman).  

C. H. Chen, P. F. Lo and J. G. Ross  

39

Soil Formation Environment at the Oakwood Lakes Archaeologic Site (39BK7).  

E. M. White and L. A. Hannus  

44

Utilization of Aspen Trees as a Ruminant Feed Component.  

Mahendra Singh and Leslie D. Kamstra  

54

A Comparison of Oven Drying and Toluene Distillation Methods of Determining Dry Matter in Silages.  

Richard M. Luther  

69

Species Composition and Standing Crop of Fishes in Big Stone Power Plant Cooling Reservoir, South Dakota.  

J. R. Wahl and R. L. Applegate  

79

Growth Rates of Seven Species of Fish in the Upper James River, South Dakota.  

Robert S. Benda, Robert J.Krska and James R. Wahl  

83

Macroscopic Benthos Populations in a South Dakota Power Plant Cooling Reservoir.  

Gordon B. Sloane and Robert S. Benda  

92

Contents of Coprolites from Hemphillian Sediments in Northern Oregon and Their Significance in Paleoecological Interpretations.  

James E. Martin  

105

The Solar Cell.  

J. D. Patterson and R. W. Hill, Jr.  

116

Taxonomic Status of Coyotes from Western South Dakota.  

Susan E. Lauzon and Frank Schitoskey, Jr  

123

Helminths of South Dakota Bobcats.  

Elizabeth C.Schitoskey and Raymond L. Linder  

135

Decomposition of Organic Matter in Two Midgrass Prairies in Western South Dakota.  

V. H. Lengkeek and R. M. Pengra  

142

A New Form of the N-Soliton Solution for the Boussinesq Equation.  

Joseph R. Dell'Aquila  

148

Simple Mathematical Model of the Surface Composition of the 100 Plane of the y-Alumina.  

Anthony J. Duben  

156

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Senior Section.  

168

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Collegiate Section.

185

Junior Academy Award Winners.  

187

Papers Published by Title Only.  

189