Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Date of this Version
1983
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
Science and society: The Gustavson Memorial Lectures (J. R. Girton) .......... 1
The relationship of science to the North-South dialogue (W. N. Hubbard, Jr.) .......... 3
Anthropology
Inclusive fitness and the practice of polyandry among the Skidi Pawnee ( T. E. McGinnis) .......... 9
American Indian artifacts from the Kansas River (R. A. Rogers and L. D. Martin) .......... 13
Biological and Medical Sciences
An analysis of the vegetation and flora of field-edges and roadsides of agricultural land in eastern Nebraska (J. Ducey and C. Wiederspan) .......... 19
Water conservation of the kangaroo rat, Dipodomys ordii (Fairbanks, Greegor, Studinger, and Bitterbaum) .......... 27
Geographical distribution of Acanthocephala in Nebraska fishes (B. B. Nickol and N. Samuel) .......... 31
Trox hamatus Robinson (Troginae) using a Canthon (Scarabaeinae) brood ball and new records of North American Trox (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (B. C. Ratcliffe) .......... 53
An assessment of the Nebraska City power station impingement effects relative to the fishery dynamics of the Missouri River (Rhone, Cherko, Harrow, and Schlesinger) .......... 57
A bryological survey of the southern Panhandle of Nebraska (L. L. Spessard) .......... 77
Earth Sciences
Some Pennsylvanian chondrichthyan spines from Nebraska (J. G. Maisey) .......... 81
History of Science
Biographical sketch and contributions to medicine of Xavier Bichat (A. J. Krush) .......... 85
The Harold W. Manter Laboratory, a national resource center for parasitology (M. H. Pritchard) .......... 89
Philosopy of Science
Universal determinism and relative determination (L. N. Meyer) .......... 93
Linguistic competence (J. Tienson) .......... 99
Comments
1983. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XI: i-vi