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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 WM. M. DAVIS, of Cambridge, 



Professors ADDISON E. VERRILL, HORACE L. WELLS, 

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



Professor GEORGE F. BARKER, of Philadelphia, 

 Professor HENRY S. WILLIAMS, of Ithaca, 

 Professor JOSEPH S. AMES, of Baltimore, 

 Mr. J. S. DILLER, of Washington. 



FOURTH SERIES 



VOL. XXIX-[WHOLE NUMBER, CLXXIX.] 



WITH FIVE PLATES. 



NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. 



1910. 





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