Missouri Academy of Science
Transactions

Volume 13
Editor: David B. Dunn

Fish Communities in Three Successional Stages of Side Channels in the Upper Mississippi River - J.M. Ellis, G.B. Farabe, and J.B. Reynolds	5

Temperature Preferenda, Body Temperature Tolerances, and Habitat Selection of Small Colubrid Snakes - G.E. Elick,J.A. Sealander, and R.J. Beumer	21

The Blow-Files of Missouri: an Annotated Checklist - R.D. Hall	33

Extension of Missouri's Ozark Faunal Region - B. Schuette	37

Birds of the Hannibal, Missouri Area - W.W. Dierker	41

An Annotated Checklist of Missouri Leaf Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) - E.G. Riley and W.R. Enns	53

A Floristic Survey of the Terrestrial Spermatophytes of the Proposed Prosperty Reservoir in Jasper County Missouri - L.P. Thomas, J.R. jackson and D.G. Fuller	85

On the Methods of Calculating Curier Temperatures of Diluted Ferromagnets - H.A. Brown and M. Jurisch	103

The Effects of Dialysis Time on Selenium Loss from Human Blood Sera - P. Primm, H.A. Anderson and J.S. Morris	117

The Evolving Role of Water Jets Relative to Energy - D.A. Summers	125

Applicability of Gravity and Seismic Methods for Delineating Northwest Missouri's Buried River Valley Aquifers - O. Malvik, R.F. Burmester and J.M Sharp, Jr	133

Natural History Research in Missouri State parks - G.F. Iffrig and J.A. Karel	147

Perspectives on Periodic Markets as Market Institutions - S.L. Driever and M. Henderson	159

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