10 THE HORTICULTURAL ADVER2ISER. 



AMERICAN NATURALIST 



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A Popular Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Natural 



History and Travel 



Announcement for 1877. 



This journal of popular Natural Science will continue to be published by Messrs. H. 0. Hough- 

 ton & Co., Kiverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., under the editorial management of Dr. A. S. Packard, 

 Jr., with the assistance of eminent men of science. 



Since January, 1876, the amount of matter given in each number has been increased over 

 former volumes. The typographical dress and illustrations which have heretofore given character 

 to this magazine, have been improved, and it is of a thoroughly popular nature, so as to interest 

 the general reader as well as the young naturalist. It will continue to be a journal of science- 

 education and for the use of science-teachers. 



Its Features for 1877. 



In 1876 the latter half of the magazine was entirelv remodeled, and a dc[)artment of 

 GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL added. The Department of BOTANY will be edited as 

 formerly l.y Prof (\. L. ({(.udalc. of Iliirvard T'niversity. That of MICROSCOPY will be edited 

 as heretofore bv Dr. P. II. Ward, Tn.v, N. Y. Anangemenis have been made to report the PRO- 

 CEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES with great promptness. A diircst of the CON- 

 TENTS OF FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND TRANSACTIONS will also 

 be given each month, together with the I ATEST HOME AND FC REIGN S^IENTIPIO 

 NEWS. 



Tlie attention of publishers and teachers is called to critical notices of scientific books, to 

 which especial attention will be given. 



Articles for Vol. XI., 1877, 



By Professors Asa Gray, J. D. Whitney, N. S. Shaler, W. G. Farlow, G. L. Goodale, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity; Professors O.'C. Marsh, A. E. Verrill, of Yale College; Mr. A. Agassiz, Hon. Lewis H. 

 Morgan, Col. Theodore Lyman, l\Ir. L. F. Pourtales, Mr. S. H. Scudder, Professors E. D. Cope, F. 

 V. Hayden, A. Hyatt; Drs. Elliott Coues, W. H. Dall, C. C. Abbot, Rev. S. Lockwood, J. A. Allen, 

 H. Gillman, C. C. Parry, R E. C. Stearns, O. T. Mason, and other leading naturalists, are either in 

 hand or promised. Notes from abroad will occasionally be contributed by Mr. Alfred W. Bennett, 

 the distinguished English botanist. 



Hole. — The ten volumes which have been published form an elegantly printed and illustcated 

 Library of American Natural History, invaluable for school, college, and public libraries. They 

 contain standard articles by Agassiz, Dana, Wyman, Gray, Whitney, Loidy, Cojie, Hunt, Dawson, 

 Newberry, Marsh, Verrill, *Morse, Gill, Coues, Scudder, Hagen, Dall, Shaler, Brewer, Ridgway, 

 Parry, Caton, Abbott, Farlow, Lockwood, Grote, Ward, and many other scientists. 



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