VI CONTENTS. 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Page. 



Projectiles containing explosives, by Commandant A. R 131 



Gold and silver deposits in North and South America, by Waldemar Lindgren. 147 

 The composition and structure of meteorites compared with that of terrestrial 



rocks, by George P. Merrill 175 



Corals and the formation of coral reefs, by Thomas Wayland Vaughan 189 



The correlation of the Quaternary deposits of the British Isles with those of the 



continent of Europe, by Charles E. P. Brooks 277 



Natural history of Paradise Key and the near-by everglades of Florida, by 



W. E. Safford 377 



Notes on the early history of the pecan in America, by Rodney H. True 435 



Floral aspects of the Hawaiian Islands, by A. S. Hitchcock 449 



The social, educational, and scientific value of botanic gardens, by John Merle 



Coulter 463 



Bird rookeries of the Tortugas, by Paul Bartsch 469 



Catalepsy in phasmidae, by P. Schmidt 501 



An economic consideration of orthoptera directly affecting man, by A. N. 



Caudell 507 



An outline of the relations of animals to their inland environments, by Charles 



C. Adams 515 



The national zoological park — A popular account of its collections, by N. 



Hollister 543 



The sea as a conservator of wastes and a reservoir of food, by H. F. Moore 595 



jib way habitations and other structures, by David I. Bushnell, Jr 609 



National work at the British Museum — Museums and advancement of learn- 

 ing, by F. A. Bather 619 



Leonhard Fuchs, physician and botanist, by Felix Neumann 635 



In memoriam — Edgar Alexander Mearns, by Charles W. Richmond 649 



William Bullock Clark 663 



