The AMERICAi^^ i\A'ii'UIIALIS!^T 



Apopiihir illustrated monthly ma^razine of Natural History àTrave^ 



ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1877. 



rpHIS JOUl>'NAL I'f popular Natural Science will continue to he 

 ^ pnblisheii liy Mes.er.«. H. 0. HoiGHro.v & Co., Riverside Frees, 

 Cîiniliridge, Mass., iiuder the editorial mànagenient of Dr. A. S. 

 Packaiu», jr., witli the assi.-tunce oi'emiuent men of science. 



Since Jatinary lt*7(i. the uniount of matter given in each number 

 han been increased over fonner volumes. The typographical dress 

 and iIlustrati(Mis which liave lieretofore given character to, this ma- 

 gazine, have been improved, audit is of a thoroughly popular nature, 

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

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

 science-teachers. 



ITS FEATURES FOR 1877. 



In 1876 the latter' haif of the magazine was entirely remodeled, 

 and a department of G liO«R.-iPHl: A-^l> TR.4V El. added. 

 The Department of KOTAI%¥ will be edited as formerly by Prof. 

 G. L. Goodale, ofHçl-Aurd University. Thatot MICROSCOPY 

 will be edited as her ore by Dr. Pt. H, Waid, Troy, New-York. 

 Arrangements have heen made to report the PKOCEbDIiXGS 

 OF Si:ai:.i\'r«FlC SOCItiTIES with great promptness. A 

 digest of ihe l!o:i1cislÀ of Foreign Scii-nfific Journals 

 and ti'an<«uctions will also be given ^each month, together 

 with liie Latest Home atui Foreign Soientiîl*; i^iews- 



The 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 Profe.ssors Asa Gray, J. D. Whitney, N. S. Shaler, W. G. Farlow, 

 G. L. Goodale, of Harvard University; Professors . C. Marsh, 

 A. E. Verr 11. of Yale College; Mr. A. Agassiz, Hon. Lewis H. Mor- 

 gan. Col. Theodore Lyman, Mr. L. F. Pourtales, Mr. S. H. Scudder, 

 Professors E. D. Cope, F. V. Havden, A. Hyatt: Drs. Elliott Coues, 

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

 man, C. C. Parry, R. E. C. Stearns, 0. T. Mason, and other lea<ling 

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

 occasionally be contributed by Mr. Alfred W. Bennett, the distinguis- 

 hed English botanist. 



Noit. — The ten volumes which have been published form an ele- 

 gantly printed and illustrated Library of American Natural History, 

 invaluable lor school, college, and public libraries. They contain 

 standard articles l>y Agassiz, Dana, Wyman, Gray, Whitney, Leidy, 

 Cope, Hunt, Dawson. Newberry, Marsh, Verrill, Morse. Gill, Coues, 

 Sou ider. Hagen, Dall, Shaler, Brewer, Ridgway, Parry, Caton, Ab- 

 bott, Farlow Lockwood, Grote, Wa'r.l, and many other scientists. 



TtRMs : 35 cents a number; $4.00 a year, postage tree. Bound 

 volumes, $5.00; vols. I.-X., 1^40.00; unbound $30.00. Back num- 

 bers supplied. > 



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