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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 

 solicited from all. 



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Single subscription, 50 cents per year to all parts 

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Address all communications to 



DR. W. E. ROTZELL, 

 Montgomery County. NARBERTH, PA. 



MARCH and APRIL, 1904. 



With this issue The Atlantic Slope 

 Naturalist completes its first volume. 

 It was, as stated iu the last issue, our 

 iuteution to complete volume one with 

 a separate issue for December, and it 

 w T as with this objest iia view that we 

 issued a separate number for Novem- 

 ber. Owing to the pressure of other 

 duties our plans iu this particular 

 w T ere not executed. The editor-pub- 

 lisher of The Atlantic Slope Nat- 

 uralist lias other duties which are 

 more imperative than those in con- 

 nection with the journal, and conse- 

 quently they must be given precedence, 

 no matter how desirous we are that 

 the journal should succeed and im- 

 prove in every particular. 



With the next issue, that is the 

 May -June number, the size of the 

 journal will be permanently increased 

 to sixteen or twenty pages, varying 

 according to the amount and character 

 of the material we may have for pub- 

 lication. With this increase in size 

 the natural sequence is an increase in 

 the amount of our subscription rate 

 and after May the 1st this will be 

 one dollar per annum. We are reluc- 

 tant to make this more, but for the 



continued success of the journal it is 

 absolutely imperative that it is done. 



Several patent medicine concerns 

 have had no better sense than to send 

 us advertising copy for either inser- 

 tion or estimate, and hence it becomes 

 necessary for us to announce that ad- 

 vertisements of this character will 

 not, for a moment, be seriously con- 

 sidered 



The majority of our subscriptions 

 expire with this issue and we hope 

 that our readers, one and all, will re- 

 new their support for another year as 

 promptly as possible. 



It may not seem to be altogether 

 within our province to recommend an 

 almanac to our readers, but neverthe- 

 less, when such an excellent one as 

 "The American Almanac, Year Book, 

 Cyclopasia and Atlas" comes along, 

 we will not hesitate to do so. It is a 

 work of over 1)00 pages and is 011 the 

 same plan as most other almanacs, but 

 for diversity of information and com- 

 pleteness it far surpasses anything of 

 the character we have ever seen. It 

 is profusely illustrated and abundantly 

 supplied with maps. It is published 

 by Mr. W. R. Hurst, of the "New 

 York American and Journal.' ' It is 

 bound in cloth and costs only 50 cents. 



The majority of the articles con- 

 ri touted to our columns are ornitho- 

 logical. They are always welcome 

 and much appreciated, but, at the 

 same time we would impress upon our 

 correspondents that it is our desire to 

 conduct a journal devoted to general 

 natural history rather than limit it to 

 any one of the specialties. 



The medical profession furnishes us 

 more subscribers than does any other 

 class; the ornithologists constitute a 

 close second ; and next are the anthro- 

 pologists. W 7 e cannot carry the group- 

 ing beyond tins, as a great many 

 overlap; that is, do not confine them- 

 selves to anyone subject in natural 

 science. 



