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THE 



AMERICAN 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



Editor: EDWARD S. DANA. 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



Professors GEORGE L. GOODALE, JOHN TROWBRIDGE, 

 W. G. FARLOW and WI. M. DAVIS, of Cambridge, 



Professors ADDISON E. VERRILL, HORACE L. WELLS, 

 L. V. PIRSSON and H. E. GREGORY, of New Haven, 



Professor GEORGE E. BARKER, of Philadelphia, 

 Professor HENRY S. WILLIAMS, of Ithaca, 

 Professor JOSEPH S. AMES, of Baltimore, 

 Mr. J. S. DILLER, of Washington. 



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 YOL. XXI— [WHOLE NUMBER, CLXXL] 



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