Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences Volume XVII (1989): Table of Contents

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1989

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1989: Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences XVII: i-vi

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Editorial Contents

Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Officers, Policy Committee .......... ii

Editorial Board .......... v

Membership Objectives and Friends of the Academy .......... vi

Biological Sciences

The biology and ecology of the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) of Nebraska (Mark R. Carter) .......... 1-18

Effects of substrate on density of aquatic insects in a southeast Nebraska stream (Patrick O. Darrow and Kenneth P. Pruess) .......... 19-22

Distribution of Amoebidium and Smittium species (Trichomycetes) in mosquito larvae on the Platte River floodplain of central Nebraska (Roger D. Grigg and Marvin C. Williams) .......... 23-28

Diversity of coprophagous Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) in grazed versus ungrazed sandhills prairie in western Nebraska (Mary Liz Jameson) .......... 29-35

Birds of the Niobrara River Valley, Nebraska (James Ducey) .......... 37-60

Woody-plant succession in an eastern Nebraska bluff forest (Borland, Bragg and Sutherland) .......... 61-63

Propagation of blowout penstemon (Penstemon haydenii S. Watson): germination-enhancing treatments (Theresa R. Flessner and James Stubbendieck) .......... 65-70

The status of Erythronium albidum and E. mesochoreum (Liliaceae) in Nebraska (Robert B. Kaul) .......... 71-79

Range extensions of some Nebraska bryophytes (Linda L. Spessard) .......... 81-82

The vascular plants of Keith County, Nebraska (David M. Sutherland and Steven B. Rolfsmeier) .......... 83-101

Earth Sciences

Chemical and physical characteristics of the Missouri River, Nebraska (Hesse, Mestl and Rohrke) .......... 103-109

Persistence of a chemical gradient in the lower Platte River, Nebraska (Richard S. Holland and Edward S. Peters) .......... 111-115

History of Science

The quest of Dr. Ernest F. Bashford for knowledge about cancer etiology in man and mouse (Anne J. Krush) .......... 117-119