CONTENTS. 



jiJLV, 1873. 



A New Enemy to the Cucumber Editor 9 



Nesting of the Worm-eating Warhler Robert Ridg%i<ay. 10 



Interesting Case of Snake Poisoning Dr. E. M. Schaeffer. 12 



Influence of Illuminating Gas upon Vegetation . . . Wm. McMtirtrie. 14 



Potomac-Side Naturalists'Club — Record . . Prof. J. W. CkkkeHn^, Jr. 15 



Field Record 16 



Curious growth \n a Potato Note on the Colorado Potato Beetle. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPAR TMENT. 



Field and Forest is a monthly publication devoted to General Natural Histoiy, 

 and the sciences, and is the Bulletin of the Potomac-side Naturalists' Club of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. 



The subscription price for the United States and Canada, payable in advance, is 

 one dollar. Foreign subscriptions, $1.25, or its equivalent. Single numbers fur- 

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A limited number of advertisements will be inserted, for the present, at the follow- 

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PROSPECTUS. 



For some time past there has been a desire for a medium through which students 

 of Natural History rnid the kindred sciences at the Nation's Capital could communi- 

 cate with each other the results of current observation in the field and laboratory, and, 

 at the same time, place on record notes of any new facts of general interest to the sci- 

 entific world that might come under their notice. 



To meet this want, Field and Forest has been projected, and, under the patron- 

 age of the Potomac-side Naturalists' Club — a natural history society founded several 

 years ago^ — it starts out with a corps of Contributors composed mainly of gentlemen of 

 recognized authority in the various bi-anchesof science, many of whom are eminent in 

 their specialties. 



A monthly record of the proceedings of the Naturalists' Club will be given, and ab- 

 stracts of papers read before the club will be pubhshed when upon subjects of special 

 interest. 



It is not intended, however, that it shall be exclusively the bulletin of any society, 

 or the record of any particular locality, but that it shall 'be de\'oted to the fields and 

 forests of our whole couiitry. At the same time we shall aim to make it |X)pular by 

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