Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Date of this Version
1984
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Officers, Policy Committee ......... ii
Editorial Board, Instructions to Contributors ......... v
Membership Objectives and Friends of the Academy ......... vi
Biological and Medical Sciences
Paulisentis missouriensis Keppner, 1974 (Acanthocephala) in creek chubs, Semotilus atromaculatus, of southeastern Nebraska (Buckner, Oetinger, and Buckner) ......... 1
Relationships between vegetation, soils, and pocket gophers in the Nebraska Sand Hills (K. J. Kjar Hirsch and J. Stubbendieck) ......... 5
Prevalence and relationships of two allocreadiid metacercariae in the burrowing mayfly, Hexagenia limbata (Serville in Guerin), of Bluestem Lake, Lancaster County, Nebraska (J. M. Moul) ......... 13
A bryological survey of southwestern Nebraska (L. L. Spessard) ......... 19
Vegetative key to grasses of the Sand Hills region of Nebraska (D. M. Sutherland) ......... 23
Seeding techniques for alfalfa to improve subirrigated meadows (Waller, Gates, Hart, Schmidt, and Samson) ......... 61
Earth Sciences
Evidence for Quaternary piracy of Pumpkin Creek, south-central Morrill County, Nebraska (R. F. Diffendal, Jr.) ......... 65
The Early Oligocene (Chadronian) Raben Ranch Local Fauna, northwest Nebraska: Multituberculata; with comments on the extinction of the Allotheria (G. E. Ostrander) ......... 71
Herpetofaunas of the Big Springs and Hornet's Nest quarries (northeastern Nebraska, Pleistocene: Late Blancan (K. Rogers) ......... 81
History of Science
Fossil proboscidians and myths of giant men (J. L. Hayward) ......... 95
The historical and archaeological significance of medieval bench end carvings in some parish churches in Suffolk, England (A. J. Krush) ......... 103
Comments
1984. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XII: i-vi