A Popular Illustrated Monthly Magazine of 

 Natural History and Travel. 



Contains Departments of Botany, Zoology, Geology, 

 Anthropology, Paleeontology, Geography and Exploration, 

 and Microscopy, and gives each month the proceedings of 

 Scientific Societies, a digest of the Contents of Foreign 

 Scientific Journals, and the latest Home and Foreign 

 Scientific News. 



The October Number of the American Naturalist opens with an interesting 

 sketch on "The Surface Geology of Eastern Massachusetts," by W, O. Crosby; 

 "Pseudis, the Paradoxical Frog," by S. W. Gannan Jollovvs, with an illustration. 

 Edwin A. Barber, in his paper " On the Ancient and Modern Pueblo Tribes of the 

 Pacific Slope of the United States," endeavours to answer the enigmatical question, 

 " Who were the architects of the ancient and extensive prehistoric stone structures 

 which abound in New Mexico, Arizona and other portions of the southwest ?" S. 

 W. Williston discusses, con amove, "The American Antelope;" John A. Ryder 

 touches closely upon the Darwinian Philosophy in his " Laws ot Digital Reduction," 

 and David S. Jordan closes the long list of papers, with a very complete article "On 

 the Distribution of Fresh-water Fishes." The recent publications relating to Natural 

 History are fully and carefully reviewed by the editors; fourteen pages are devoted to 

 new discoveries and advances made in the various sciences of Botany, Zoology, 

 Microscopy, etc., the whole closing with Scientific News and Pi-oceedings of Societies. 



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