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Contains Departments of Botany, Zoology, Geology, 

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 and Microscopy, and gives each month the proceedings of 

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The Oclobei- 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. Garman, follows, with an illustration. 

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

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

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

 which abound iu New Mexico, Arizona and other portions of the Southwest ?" S. 

 W. Williston discusses, con aniore, " The American Antelope ;" John A. Rydei* 

 touches closely upon the Darwinian Philosophy in his " Laws of Digital Reduction ' 

 and David S. Jordan closes the list of long 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 iiotany, Zoology, 

 Microscopy, etc., the whole closing with Scientilic News and Proceedings of Societies. 



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