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Report on a pumping test at Evansville, Indiana
The City of Evansville, Ind. has utilized the Ohio River as a source of municipal water supply for many years. The average daily pumpage for the city in 1950 was reported to be about 18.5 million gallons. Because of the extreme variability in the quality of the river water and the extensive treatment necessary, the city considered the possibility of developing a ground-water supply to supplement i
Authors
Fred C. Mickels, Porter E. Ward
Alteration and metallization in the Bagdad porphyry copper deposit, Arizona
The porphyritic to seriate-textured quartz monzonite host-rock at Bagdad was changed by hypogene alteration to a granular rock in which the plagioclase became albitic, orthoclase and quartz increased in amount, and hornblende and book-biotite were recrystallized to pale brown leafy biotite. Hypogene sulfides, pyrite and chalcopyrite, were added during the process of alteration, accompanied in part
Authors
Charles Anderson
Populations and home range relationships of the box turtle, Terrapene c. carolina (Linnaeus)
SUMMARY: A population study of the box turtle (Terrapene c. carolina Linnaeus) was made during the years 1944 to 1947 at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Maryland. A thirty acre area in well drained bottomland forest on the flood plain of the Patuxent River was selected for intensive study. Similarly forested land extended in all directions from the study plot. Markers were established at
Authors
Lucille F. Stickel
A selected bibliography of ecological life history material on North American birds
No abstract available.
Authors
Robert F. Stewart, John W. Aldrich
Fourteenth breeding-bird census. 22. General farm land
No abstract available.
Authors
R. E. Stewart, M.B. Meanley
[Book review] The Saga of the Waterfowl, by Martin Bovey
No abstract available.
Authors
R. E. Stewart
Toxicity and repellency to rats of actidione
The antibiotic actidione was found to be highly repellent to laboratory rats and to significantly reduce gnawing attacks upon treated paperboards. Rats refused to accept food or water containing this material even under conditions of acute starvation and died of starvation and thirst,rather than accept water containing l.0 mg. of actidione per liter. The compound is highly toxic to .rats with the
Authors
R. Traub, J.B. DeWitt, J.F. Welch, D. Newman
Rat deterrents for paper packages
A report of the study to develop a treatment for paper and fabricating materials which will prevent or minimize damage be commensal rodents to stored package goods.
Authors
J.F. Welch, J.B. DeWitt, E. Bellack