THE AMERICAN NATURALIST; 



A POPULAR ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF NATURAL 

 HISTORY AND TRAVEL 



ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1877. 



This journal of popular Natural Science will continue to be published by Messrs. H. O. 

 Houghton & Co , Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., under the editorial management of Dr. 

 A. S. Packard, Jr., with the assistance of eminent men of s5cience. The typographical dress 

 and illustrations which have heretofore given character to this magazine, have been improved, 

 and it is of a thoroughly popular nature, so as to interest the general reader as well as the 

 young naturalist. It will continue to be a journal of science-education and for tbe use of 

 science-teachers. 



Each number of the Naturalist contains carefully written articles on various scientific 

 subjects, and, in addition, departments of Recent Literature, Botany, Zoology, Anthropology , 

 Geology and Palceontology, Geography and Exploration, %nd Microscopy. The department of 

 Botany is edited by Prof. CjEORGE L. Goodale, of Harvard University, and that of Microscopy 

 by Dr. R. H. Ward, of Troy, New York. Arrangements have been made to report the Pro- 

 ceedings of Scientific Societies with great promptness. A digest of the Contents of Foreign Sci- 

 entific Journals and Transactions will also be given each month, together with the Latest 

 Home and Foreign Scientific Neics. 



The attention of publishers and teachers is called to critical notices of scientific books, to 

 which especial attention will be given. 



Among those who have promised to contribute to the Naturalist during 1877 are Profes- 

 sors Asa Gray, J. D. Whitney, N. S. Shaler, W. G. Farlow, G. L. Goodale, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity; Professors O. C. Marsh, A. E. Verrill, of Yale College; Mr. A. Agassiz, Hon. Lewis H. 

 Morgan, Col. Theodore Lyman, Mr. L. F. Pourtales, Mr. S H. Scudder, Professors E. D. Cope, 

 F. V. Hayden, A. Hyatt; Drs. Elliott Coues. W. H. Dall, C. C. Abbot, Rev. S. Lockwood, J. A. 

 Allen, H. Gillman, C, C. Parry, R. E. C. Stearns, 0. T. Mason, and other leading naturalists. 

 Notes from abroad will occasionally be contributed by Mr. Alfred W. Bennett, the distinguished 

 English botanist. 



The following table of contents of the January number will give an idea of the character of 

 this valuable magazine to those not already familiar with it : — 



LEADING ARTICLES.— la Protective Mimicry due to Natiu-al Selection?— Alfred W. Bennett. Educated Fleas.— 

 W. H. Dall. The Giant Birds of New Zealand.— I. C. RusseU. The Migrations of the Destructive Locust of the 

 West. — A. 8. Packard, Jr. Notes on the Aboriginal Money of California. — Lorenzo G. Yates. The Philosopher's 

 ytone. — William E. Hagen. 



KECENT LITERATURE.— Gurney's Rambles of a Naturalist. Boucard's Catalogue of Birds. The Wild Flowers 

 of America. Recent Books and Pamphlets. 



GENERAL NOTES. — Botany: Homogone and Heterogone Flowers. A Madrona swallows an Oak. The Sexual 

 Reproduction ot Fungi. Botanical Club at Providence, R. I. Botanical Papers in Recent Pei-iodicals. — Zoology: 

 Notes on some Oregon Birds. Habits of the Whistler. — Anthropology: Cordate Ornament. Anthropological News. 

 — Geology and Pala3ontology : The Geological Survey. The Geology of Ithaca, New York, and the Vicinity. — Geog- 

 raphy and Exploration: Explorations of the Polaris Expedition to tlie North Pole. — Microscopy: Illumination in 

 Connection with Polarization. Pollen Tubes for the Microscope. San Francisco Microscopical Society. 



S:'IENTIFIC NEWS. PUOCEEDlNGa OF SOCIETIES. SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 



Terms: 35 cents a number ; $4.00 a year ; with portrait of Agassiz, $5.00. 



Note. — The ten volumes which have been published form an elegantly printed and illustrated Library of Ameri- 

 can Natural History, invaluable for school, college and public libraries. They contain standard articles by Agassiz, 

 Dana, Wyman, Gray. Whitney, Leidy, Cope, Hunt, Dawson, Newberry, Marsh, VerriU, Morse, Gill, Coues, Scudder, 

 Hagen, DaU, Shaler, Brewer, Ridgway, Parry, Caton, Abbot, Farlow, Lockwood, Grote. Waid, and many other sci- 

 entists. Bound volumes, $5.00; vols. I.-X , $40.00; unbound, $30.00. Back numbers supplied. 



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