Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Date of this Version
1985
Abstract
Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Officers, Policy Committee .......... ii
Editorial Board, Instruction to Contributors .......... v
Membership Objectives and Friends of the Academy .......... vi
Meet Dr. Bob! (M. H. Pritchard) .......... 1
Reminiscences: My forty-year romance with malaria (G. R. Coatney) .......... 5
Biological and Medical Sciences
Mosses of the Great Plains X. The Niobrara Valley Preserve and adjacent area in Nebraska (S. P. Churchill) .......... 13
Grasshopper dietary (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from a Nebraska Sand Hills prairie (A. Joern) .......... 21
Annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nebraska (J. D. Lynch) .......... 33
Water quality of a limited segment of the Big Blue River in Nebraska (Williams, Nagel and True) .......... 59
Earth Sciences
Overview of nitrate in Nebraska's ground water (Adelman, Schroeder, Smaus, and Wallin) .......... 75
Antlers of Bretzia and Odocoileus (Mammalia, Cervidae) and the evolution of New World deer (E. P. Gustafson) .......... 83
A Pleistocene jaguar from north-central Nebraska (Schultz, Martin, and Schultz) .......... 93
Chemical and radiological composition of air and ground water near the mineralized uranium ore deposit at Crawford, Nebraska (A. W. Struempler) .......... 99
History of Science
The Paul Sears I know (R. H. Moore) .......... 107
Comments
1985. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XIII: i-vi