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THIS volume contains a journal of the proceedings of the Society from March 1868 to January 1873, and a few papers in extenso. The latter are:—Notes on the Genus Yucca, by G. Englemann; On the new Genus in the Lepidopterous Family Tineidæ, with Remarks on the Fertilisation of the Yucca; and Supplementary Notes on Pronuba yuccasella, by C. V. Riley; Descriptions of North American Hymenoptera, by B. D. Walsh; Atmospheric Electricity, by Dr. A. Wislizenus, being the yearly report of atmospheric electricity, temperature, and humidity, from observations made at St. Louis; Catalogues of Earthquakes for 1871, by R. Hayes; and On the Occurrence of Iron Ores in Missouri, by J. R. Gage. Mr. Hayes, on the basis of the recorded earthquakes from 1739 to 1842 has found that the “largest maxima occurred in the years of the heliocentric conjunction and opposition of Jupiter and Saturn, with but three exceptions, and in these cases the increase began in those years, but the maximum was not reached till the following year.” He suggests that “these planets induce electric currents which call into action those forces to which the causes of seismic phenomena are usually ascribed.”
The Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis,
vol. iii. No. 1. (St. Louis, U.S., 1873.)
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The Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis . Nature 9, 499 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009499a0
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