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A populiir illustrati'd monthly iiin?;azinc of Naîiiral History & Travd 



ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1877. 



npHrS JOUh'NAL •ofi)opnlar Natural Science will contimie to be 

 * publi,slied by Messrs. H. O. Hoighi'on & Co., Rivorsi.ie Prees, 

 Caniliridge, Mass.. under the editorial management of Dr. A. S. 

 PAi'KAiii), jr., with tlie 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 ma- 

 gazine, liave been improved, and it isofa thoroughly pi,'|)ular nature, 

 so as to interest the general reader as well as ilie young naturalist. 

 It will continue to be a journal of science-education and torllie use of 

 science-teachers. 



ITS FEATURES FOR 1877. 



In 187() the latter half of the nuigazine was etitirelv remodeled, 

 and a department of «ll':«JGEêAPHl' A^'S» TBi.t V Sîi. ndded. 

 The J.)epartnient of EOTAI^'¥ will -be edited as furu'erlv I'V Prof 

 G. L. Goodale, of Hardvard University. That' of AIICliUSCOPY 

 will be edited as heretofore by Dr. R. H. Waid, Troy, New-Yurk. 

 Arrangements have been made to report the B*EaO<-'8'^l!!--.Bîîi\'€;.S 

 OF }4C;aBi]V'rJFBC ««MJIETSE'*» with great promptness. A 

 (bgest of the Coeatesatj» «ï'Foit'ign ScifuSsî!**. J3oi83'Biia!« 

 aiifd tl'on«<iactiOl9^ will also \,h given each m<M;ih. tnociher 

 with the l..atëst HoMîe as*<S Foreigsi Sa'i«?3aïillii' I^civs 

 . The attention of publishers and teachers is called tu <:riiical notices 

 of scientific books, to which especial attentiuu wdl be given. 



ARTICLi;S FOR VOL. XI., 1877 



By Professors Asa Gray, J. D. Whitney. N. S. Slialer, W. G. Farlow, 

 G. Jj. Goodale, of Harvard University; Proi'essorsO. C. Marsh, 

 A. E. Verr II, of Yale Colleg.^: Mr. A. Agassiz, Hon. ]>ewis H. Mor- 

 gan, Col. Theodore L3'man, Mr. L. F. Pourtales, Mr. S. H. Scndder. 

 Prolessors E. D. Cope, F. V. Hayden, A. Ilvatt; Drs. Elliott Coues, 

 W. H. Dall. C. C. Abbot, Rev. S. Lockwood, J. A. Allen, H. Gill- 

 man, C. C. Parry, R. E. C. Stearns, 0. T. Mason, mid other leading 

 naturalists, are either in haml or promised. Notes from abroad wili 

 occasionally be contributed iiy Mr. Alfred W. Beniult, the disiingnis- 

 heii English liotanist ^ ■ 



Note. — Tlie ten volumes wliich have been ])nl.lislied torm ;tn ele- 

 gantly printed and illnstriued Library of American Natural History, 

 invahuilile toi- .school, college, and public liliraries. They contain 

 standard articles by Agassiz, Dana, Wyman. Gray. Whitney, Leidy. 

 Cope, Hunt, Dawson. Newberry, Marsh. VerriH. Morse Gill. Cones, 

 Scuilder. Hageii. Dali, Shaler, Hrewer, Ridgway, Parry, Caton. Ab- 

 bott. Farlow Lockwood, Grole, Ward, anl many other ■•(■ieiiti-ts. 



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 volumes, .fô'd); vols. I.-X., ^.■40. 00; unl.oun. I ^3(1.00. Hack nuni- 

 bers supplied. 



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