The AilIERICAÎ^^ .^■AVUi^4LIî^T 



A popular illustraU'il nioiUliIy masazine of Naliiral History & Travd 

 ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1877. 



nnHIS JOUli'NAL (if pupular Natural Science will continue to be 

 * piililislied by Me^8r^^. H. 0. Huugiiton & Co., Riverside Frees, 

 Catiihriilge. Mass.. under tlie editorial iiiana<reinent of Ur. A. S. 

 PA<KARn, jr., witli the assistance ofetinuent n en of science. 



Since January 1876, the amount of matter given In eacii number 

 lias been increased over tormer volumes. The typograpliical dress 

 and illustrations which have heretofore given character to this ma- 

 gazine, liave been improved, and it is of a thoroughly popular nature, 

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

 ]t wilt continue to be a joiirnal of science-education and forthe use of 

 science-teacliers. 



ITS FEATURES FOR 1877. 



In ISTfi the latter half of the magazine was entirely remodele(l, 

 and a department of î;«J8iOfi31 A B»Mt' A^^9 TSt A VEL, added. 

 The department of EÊO'iTAiSiï will be edited as formerlv Uv Prof. 

 G. L. Goodale, ofHardvard University. That of MICROSCOPY 

 will be edited as heretolbre by Dr. R. H. Ward. Troy. New-York. 

 Arrangements Jiave been made to report the PBêOCELDBH^S 

 OF S^CiJï^l^TfiFÏC ^iWCïEl'iS::»* with great promptness. A 

 digest of the CoBstemt* ol Fort'lgn f^cit'istiHic Jouma.Bs 

 a.>:tt<l lrcB.Bl!>t«6C4noat s will also bf- given each moi;ih, togellier 

 with the B.iîtest ISoiMti a»*d Forei^fia Ss^BosaSiSi*^ Me^vs- 



The attention of publishers and teachers is called to critical notices 

 ol 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. Fnrlow, 

 G. L. Goodale, of Harvard Universilv ;' Professors C. Marsh, 

 A. E. Verr 11, of Yale College; Mr. A. Agasnz, Hon. Tewis H. Mor- 

 gan, Col. Theodore Lyman, Mr. L. F. Pnurtales, Mr. S. H. S'cnd(ier. 

 Professors E. D. Cope. F. V. Havden, A. Hyatt; 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, and other leading 

 naturalists, are either in hand or promised. Notes from abroad .will 

 occasionally be contributed by Mr. Alfred W. Benn* tt, tlie distinguis- 

 hed English botanist 



■ Note. — The ten volumes which Lave been pulilished form an ele- 

 gantly printed and illustraied Library of American Natural History, 

 i' va liai lor school, college, and public libraries. They contain 

 s 'ir irtif-les by Agassiz, Dana, Wynian. Gray. Whitney, Leidy, 

 Cope, Hunt, Daw.-:on. Newberry, Marsh, Verrill, Alorse Gill, Coues, 

 Scudder. Ilagen, Dall, Shaler, Brewer, Rid^way. Parry, Caton, Ab- 

 bott, Farlow Ivockwood. G rote, Ward, and many other .-cientists. 



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