Volume LV Number 6

THE OHIOJOURNAL OF SCIENCE

NOVEMBER, 1955

TABLE OF CONTENTS

An Outline of the Process of Organic Evolution. . Donald J. Borror 321Effect of Adrenocortical Extract and Relatively Small Doses of

Sesame Oil On the Oxygen Consumption of Goldfish,Thomas B. Calhoon and Clifford A. Angerer 329

Studies on Bacterial Interaction: I. The Effect of Trypsin on theCellulase Activity of Cellulomonas Flavigena,

F. E. Porter, H. H. Weiser, and W. D. Gray 335The Extraction of the Pigment From Touraco Feathers By Soap

Solution Alvin I. Kosak 339Responses of the Oat Coleorhiza to Various Treatments in

Culture Knut J. Norstog 340The Synthesis of Fibrinolysin By Fungi,

Thanomwang Amatayakul 343Stability of Vitamin C in Tomato Juice,

Ahmed Fahmy Mabrouk, Abdel Aziz Hussein and Hussein Aref 354Animal Remains From Ohio Rock Shelters Robert M. Goslin 358Semantic Analysis of a Few Anatomical Terms of the 18th-

Century Delaware Indians August C. Mahr 363The Estimation of the Frequency of a Recessive Sex-Linked Gene

by the Method of Maximum Likelihood,Paulinus F. Forsthoefel 372

In Memoriam—Professor Raymond Carroll Osburn 1872-1955.. 376Index to Volume LV 378Book Notices 328, 362

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VOLUME LV—1955

RICHARD H. BOHNING, Editor-in-Chief

PUBLISHED AT COLUMBUS. OHIO, BY THE

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THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

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EDMUND M. SPIEKER ARTHUR W. LINDSEY

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME LV

NUMBER 1—JANUARY

Preliminary Screening for Potential Algicides... C. Mervin Palmer and Thomas E. Maloney 1The Progress of Nationalism in West Africa Roderick Peattie 9Ground-Water Hydraulics as an Aid to Geologic Interpretation William C. Walton 13A preliminary Note on Egg Production from Milk-Fed Mosquitoes,

A. 0. Lea, J. A. Knierim, J. B. Dimond and D. M. DeLong 21Spontaneous Goiter and Cancer of the Thyroid in Animals,

Hans G. Schlumberger, M .D. 23Chemical Dating of Bronze Coin Blanks from the Athenian Agora,

Earle R. Caley and Wallace H. Deebel 44Physiological Processes Associated with Sperm Emission in the Leopard Frog, Rana

Pipiens M. L. Giltz 47New Ohio Rhynchophora. I. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) Elbert L. Sleeper 54Two New Ohio Localities for the Red-Bellied Water Snake Roger Conant 61Control of Spittlebugs on Strawberries E. P. Breakey 63The Ohio Flora Project 64Book Notices 8, 12, 20, 22, 46, 53, 60

NUMBER 2—MARCH

Revision of the Chillicothe Test-Core Section J. Ernest Carman 65Changes with Age in the Proportion of the Dominants in a Beech-Maple Forest in Central

Ohio Joseph D. Laufersweiler 73Small Foraminifera of the Pottsville Formation in Ohio Mildred Fisher Mar pie 81Succession in a Dune Community at Mentor Headlands, Ohio Harold G.'Marshall 90A Synopsis of Micralcinus LeConte (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) Elbert L. Sleeper 95Algae of the Panama Canal and Its Tributaries I. Flagellated Organisms,

G. W. Prescott 99An Audibility Curve for Two Ring-Necked Pheasants Paul A. Stewart 122Book Notices 72, 80, 98, 121, 126

NUMBER 3—MAY

Branchial Circulation in Macropodus Opercularis L Paul Machowicz and J. C. Gray 129On the Existence of Chronological Variations in the Composition of Roman Brass,

Earle R. Caley 137A Motile Strain of Fusobacterium Polymorphum Heiner Hoffman 141Age Relations of the Middle Devonian Limestones in Ohio Grace A. Stewart 147Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity Near Adams Mills, Ohio,

Wilbert R. Banner and William M. Bethke 182Methanol Tolerance of Three Strains of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Hansen,

James R. Troyer 185A Synopsis of the Genus Cophes in the United States and Mexico (Coleoptera, Cur-

culionidae) Elbert L. Sleeper 188Book Notices 140, 146, 181, 184, 187

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NUMBER 4—JULYSome Biological Factors in Aging Rush Elliott 193The Taxonomies of the Genus Protogynella Jones, 1943 (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae),

with a Description of Protogynella Pauciova N. SP. Provis Vernon H. Oswald 200A Preliminary Note on Some Nutritional Requirements for Reproduction in Female Aedes

Aegypti J. B. Ditnond, A. 0. Lea, R. F. Brooks, and D. M. DeLong 209Riboflavin Synthesis in Cultures of Physarum Polycephalum William D. Gray 212The Vascular Flora of Clinton County, Ohio Edward E. Terrell 215A Contribution on the Natural History of Allolobophora Minima Muldal (Lumbricidae)

William R. Murchie 241Some New Texan Erythroneura (Eratoneura) of the Dira Group (Homoptera: Cicadellidae)

Dorothy J. Knull 245Annual Report of the Ohio Academy of Science, 1955 247Book Notices 199, 208, 211, 244, 246

NUMBER 5—SEPTEMBERCarbonic Anhydrase in Certain Species of Plants,

Thomas E. Brown and H. Clyde Eyster 257Drainage Patterns in the Alambre Valley, Arizona Joseph G. War go 263Notes on Some Salamanders of Warner's Hollow, Ashtabula County, Ohio,

William B. Muchmore 267Variations in Populations and Cell Dimensions of Phytoplankton in the Island Region of

Western Lake Erie Walter James Hintz 271A Review of the Trachyloeini of America North of Mexico (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Elbert L. Sleeper 279Determination of Calcium in Cinder Block Arthur H. Black and Vance H. Dodson 293Oxygen Consumption of Adrenelectomized and Renal Damaged Frogs,

Clifford A. Angerer and Mary C. Murray 296Multicellular Root Hairs on Adventitious Roots of Kalanchoe Fedtschenkoi,

Richard A. Popham and Robert D. Henry 301Observations on the Habits of Tabanidae R. L. Blickle 308Results of an Examination of Metal Specimens from an Excavation of Shamshir Ghar,

Afghanistan Earle R. Caley and Wallace H. Deebel 311Notes on the Genus Haplopogon and a new Species (Diptera: Asilidae). . . . C. H. Martin 315Notes on the Life Cycles of Three Parasites of the Pitch Twig Moth William E. Miller 317Book Notices 262, 266, 292, 295, 300, 307, 310, 316

NUMBER 6—NOVEMBERAn Outline of the Process of Organic Evolution Donald J. Borror 321Effect of Adrerfocortical Extract and Relatively Small Doses of Sesame Oil On the Oxygen

Consumption of Goldfish Thomas B. Calhoon and Clifford A. Angerer 329Studies on Bacterial Interaction: I. The Effect of Trypsin on the Cellulase Activity of

Cellulomonas Flavigena F. E. Porter, H. H. Weiser, and W. D. Gray 335The Extraction of the Pigment From Touraco Feathers By Soap Solution.. Alvin I. Kosak 339Responses of the Oat Coleorhiza to Various Treatments in Culture Knut J. Norstog 340The Synthesis of Fibrinolysin By Fungi Thanomwang Amatayakul 343Stability of Vitamin C in Tomato Juice,

Ahmed Fahmy Mabrouk, Abdel Aziz Hussein and Hussein Are} 354Animal Remains From Ohio Rock Shelters Robert M. Goslin 358Semantic Analysis of a Few Anatomical Terms of the 18th-Century Delaware Indians,

August C. Mahr 363The Estimation of the Frequency of a Recessive Sex-Linked Gene by the Method of

Maximum Likelihood Paulinus F. Forsthoefel 372In Memoriam—Professor Raymond Carroll Osburn 1872-1955 376Index to Volume LV 378Book Notices 328, 362

PUBLICATION DATES OF THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCEVolume LV, 1955

Number 1—January January 17, 1955Number 2—March March 11, 1955Number 3—May May 28, 1955Number 4—July August 3, 1955Number 5—September September 16, 1955Number 6—November November 10, 1955