Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences- Table of Contents and Introduction

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1977

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Published in Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Volume 4 (1977).

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Copyright 1977 by the Authors; used by permission of the NAS

Abstract

TRANSACTIONS of the NEBRASKA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

CONTENTS

Nebraska Academy of Science, Officers, Policy Committee, Editorial Board ....................... ii

Instructions to Contributors....................... vi

ANTHROPOLOGY Calcium carbonate inclusions in pottery: Some cautions for the archaeologist RAYMOND LEICHT ....................... 1

The group foster home counselor: An anthropological analysis PATRICK F. MC CARTY ....................... 5

Man-made artifacts from the Red Willow Gravel Pits THOMAS P. MYERS ....................... 9

BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Plant galls of the vicinity of Seward, Nebraska CARL T. BRANDHORST ....................... 13

Marvinmeyerla lucida (Moore, 1954) a commensal of Helisoma trivolvis (Say) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Nebraska DANIEL R. BROOKS and NANCY J. WELCH ....................... 21

The impact of artificial reduction of light on a eutrophic farm pond EUGENE G. BUGLEWICZ and GARY L. HERGENRADER ....................... 23

Chromosome analysis of Bidens polylepis and Eidens coronata (Compositae) MERLIN G. BUTLER and RONALD R. WEEDON ....................... 35

A botanical surv:ey of Cuming County: Part I, the vascular plants STEVEN P. CHURCIDLL ....................... 43

Wood Duck production in the Salt Creek Watershed of Eastern Nebraska CALVIN L. CINK ....................... 53

Sandhill crane dancing during the spring migration JAMES R. GRAY and THOMAS F. SWEENEY ......................57

A taxonomic investigation of some rhizomatous species of the genus Muhlenbergia (Gramineae) JAMES KURTZ and DAVID M. SUTHERLAND ....................... 69

Propranolol: A specific antagonist to cocaine RICHARD T. RAPPOLT, SR., GEORGE R. GAY and DARRYL S. INABA ....................... 73

EARTH SCIENCES A Late Pleistocene-Holocene vertebrate fauna from Red Willow County, Nebraska R. GEORGE CORNER. ....................... 77

Carnivores from the Jamber Local Fauna (Valentinian), Boyd County, Nebraska KAREN KREYCIK MESSENGER and CHARLES L. MESSENGER ....................... 95

The antiquity of Bison latifrons (Harlan) in the Great Plains of North America C. BERTRAND SCHULTZ and JOHN M. HILLERUD ....................... 103

Frontiers of Nebraska Geology THOMPSON MYLAN STOUT ....................... 117

A new species of Diceratherium from the Lower Pliocene (Valentinian) of Boyd County, Nebraska LLOYD G. TANNER ....................... 121

Fossil moles of Late Hemphillian age from Northeastern Nebraska M.R. VOORHIES ....................... 129

ENGINEERING

Indoor wing configurations for Fédération Aeronautique Internationale competition WALTER C. ERBACH ....................... 139

IDSTORY OF SCIENCE Hermann Lebert's contributions to the understanding of cancer and cancer genetics ANNE J. KRUSH ....................... 143

The methodological principles of Plato and Berson MARK C. TIMMONS ....................... 147

PIDLOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

The general form of the new riddle of induction EDWARD F. BECKER ....................... 151

Enargeia: A concept for all seasons DENNIS R. BORMANN ....................... 155

Wittgenstein's "Language-Game"-A tool for cognitive developments ELIZABETH T. CARPENTER ....................... 161

The future of free and democratic institutions: A critique of Robert L. Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect ROBERT E. DEWEY ....................... 165

On the status of the concepts of masculinity and femininity SARAH HOAGLAND ....................... 169

The nature and function of fundamental propositions in accounting theory construction JACK L. KROGSTAD ....................... 173

Toward a methodology for auditing JACK L. KROGSTAD ....................... 177

A linguistic view of Habermas' Theory of Communicative Competence ELISABETH LEINFELLNER ....................... 181

Kant as internalist: The synthetic a priori proposition of Kant's Ethical Theory NELSON T. POTTER ....................... 185

Two views of quantification CHARLES W. SAYWARD ....................... 189

INSTITUTE FOR TERTIARY-QUATERNARY STUDIES (TER-QUA)

Bicentennial Symposium

"Our Changing Climate Since 1776"

Drought and the model of a Quaternary terrace-cycle C. BERTRAND SCHULTZ and THOMPSON MYLAN STOUT ....................... 191

MAIBEN MEMORIAL LECTURES

1975 Lecture

Should we kill the rats or is biological control preferable? R.V. ANDREWS ....................... 203

1976 Lectures

Bicentennial Symposium

"Two Hundred Years of Agriculture in Nebraska"

A review of the evidence for aboriginal agriculture with special reference to the Nebraska area MARVIN F. KIVETT....................... 209

The history of agriculture in the United States beginning with the Seventeenth Century ELVIN F. FROLIK....................... 213

COLLEGIATE SECTION

Preliminary post-cranial metric analysis of mammoths from the Hot Springs Mammoth Site, South Dakota BARBARA LEE DUTROW....................... 223

Some aspects of lithification in chalk NAGARAJA KIRUMAKKI....................... 229