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THE ATLANTIC SLOPE NATURALIST. 



the: 



Atlantic Slope Naturalist. 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY 

 BY 



W. E. ROTZELL, M. D., Narberth, Pa. 



Articles of interest to the observer of Nature 

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Address all communications to 



DR. W. E. ROTZELL, 



Montgomery County. NARBERTH, PA. 



NOVEMBER, 1903. 



As mentioned might be the case 

 separate issues of this journal for the 

 months of November and December 

 are being issued in order mainly to 

 permit volume two to begin at the 

 first of the year. It was not so very 

 many days ago that the editor met in 

 Philadelphia one of the friends of 

 The Atlantic Slope Naturalist who 

 inquired, owing to the lateness of this 

 issue, if the journal had suspended 

 publication. We assured him that it 

 had not and, furthermore, that it was 

 not going to so long as it continued 

 receiving the support commeasurable 

 w T ith that which has thus far been ex- 

 tended to it. The Atlantic Slope 

 Naturalist was not started with the 

 intention of suspending publication 

 until a fair trial lias been made to 

 ascertain if there is a demand for a 

 journal of its character. An issue 

 should not be considered as being late 

 in appearing until after the month of 

 publication has expired and the num- 

 ber has not been issued. 



This number is late, being issued De- 

 cember 3rd. 



The next issue will be out about 

 December the 20th. 



We have seen many newspapers 

 containing departments devoted to 

 natural history and in the majority of 

 instances these departments have been 

 interesting and original, for the reason 

 that they are sure to contain observa- 

 tions, especially field notes, which 

 never find their w T ay into the journals. 

 The Daily Herald of Guelph, On- 

 tario, Canada, contains just such a 

 department entitled ' ' Notes from 

 Thicket and Swamp." It is, in our 

 judgment, the best department of this 

 character that it has been our privi- 

 lege to see and is well worth the sub- 

 scription price of the paper. The 

 department is edited by Mr. A. B. 

 Klugh. 



The proceedings of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of 

 Science for the 52ud annual meeting 

 have just reached us and the usual merit 

 of the work is, of course, maintained. 

 The only criticism we would have 

 to make is that the supplemental list 

 of members, arranged according to 

 geographical distribution, is unneces- 

 sarj 7 and that the space occupied by 

 the same could be more profitably 

 utilized, especially when we consider 

 that so many of the papers are pub- 

 lished merely by title. 



We are indebted to Dr. R. W. Shu- 

 feldt for reprints on avian osteology 

 and to Mr. Stewart Culin for reprints 

 on American archaeology ; on account 

 of lack of space we are unable to re- 

 view any of these papers in this issue. 



In a circular letter Dr. Frank H. 

 Lattin, of Albion, N. Y., announces 

 that his well known journal The 

 Ooloqist which has not been issued 

 for a number of months past, w T ill 

 about December the 1st resume publi- 

 cation with Dr. Lattin as publisher 

 and Mr. Ernest H. Short, of Roch- 

 ester. N.Y., as editor. This journal, 

 as The Young Oologist, began pub- 

 lication back in 1884 and at once be- 

 came the guiding star of hundreds of 

 young naturalists in all parts of the 



