Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences Volume VIII (1980): Table of Contents

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1980

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1980. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences VIII: i-vi

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

The influence of winglessness on mating frequency in species of the Drosophila affinis subgroup (Alemdar, McIntyre, Chang, and Miller) .......... 1

Den and den-site characteristics of coyotes (Canis latrans) in southeastern Nebraska (D. P. Althoff) .......... 9

Floristic analysis of a natural area on the Lower Platte River Flood Plain (D. A. Becker) .......... 15

Observations on the life cycle of spurge hawkmoth (J. R. Forwood and M. K. McCarty) .......... 31

The fishes of Salt Creek Basin, Nebraska (T. R. Maret and E. J. Peters) .......... 35

Platte River evapotranspiration: A historical perspective in central Nebraska (H. G. Nagel and M. S. Dart) .......... 55

Platte River island succession (Nagel, Geisler, Cochran, Fallesen, Hadenfeldt, Mathews, Nickel, Stec, and Walters) .......... 77

Distribution of fishes in Thirty-two Mile Creek, Nebraska (S. R. Walker) .......... 91

Earth Sciences

The fossil lnsectivora of Lemoyne Quarry (Ash Hollow Formation, Hemphillian), Keith County, Nebraska (T. M. Brown) .......... 99

The Rush Creek-Lisco Structural Basin, Garden and Morrill counties, Nebraska (R. F. Diffendal, Jr.) .......... 123

Paleoclimatic implications of Pleistocene herpetofaunas of eastern and central North America (J. A. Holman) .......... 131

Functional morphology and the evolution of cats (L. D. Martin) .......... 141

Some crinoids from the Argentine Limestone (Late Pennsylvanian-Missourian) of southeastern Nebraska and southwestern Iowa (P. K. Pabian and H. L. Strimple) .......... 155

Ancient soils and climatic changes in the Central Great Plains (C. B. Schultz and T. M. Stout) .......... 187

History of Science

The classification of tumors by John Abernethy early in the Nineteenth Century (A. J. Krush) .......... 207

Philosophy of Science

The strictures of scientific relativism (C. J. Dougherty) .......... 211

Causality, determinism, and the mind-brain problem (J. C. Schank) .......... 217

The idea of technological progress and its problems (E. E. Selk) .......... 225

The applicability of Torgerson's concept of fiat measurement in developmental stages of the social sciences (C. V. Zavgren and S. J. Lambert) .......... 237