The American Naturalist 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 
J. A. ALLEN, PH.D., American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
E. A. ANDREWS, Pu.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 
WILLIAM S. BAYLEY, Pu.D., Colby University, diii: 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, Pu.D., Yale University, New Hav 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL, Pu.D., Leland e. Junior Cntr is, Cal. 
J. H. COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell University, Ithac 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard DIOS. Canbrdgr. 
ALÉS HRDLICKA, M.D., New York C 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Leland Stanford und or University, California. 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, Pu.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, 4H. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, Pu.D., Zake Forest University. 
ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, Pu.D., Princeton University. 
D. P. PENHALLOW, S.B., F.R.M.S., McG University, Montreal. 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, New York 
W. E. RITTER, PH.D., University of California, Berkeley. 
FRANK RUSSELL, PH.D., Harvard University, Cambridge. 
ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, LL.D, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D., U. S. Department of — sic eter 
LEONHARD STEJN EGER, Smithsonian Institut a ington 
W. TRELEASE, edes Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Ta 
HENRY B. WARD, PH.D., University of Nebraska, iaai 
S. WATASE, PH.D, aa of Chicago. 
THE AMERICAN NATURALIST is an illustrated monthly magazine 
of Natural History, and will aim to present to its readers the leading 
facts and discoveries in Anthropology, General Biology, Zoology, 
ees edi pars = scientific eens biographical notices of 
distinguished naturalists, or critical summaries of progress in some 
line; and in addition to these there will be briefer articles on various 
- points of interest, editorial comments on scientific questions of the 
day, critical reviews of recent — and a final department for 
SEC news and personal n 
naturalists who have venue interesting to say are invited 
to send i in their contributions, but the editors will endeavor to select 
for publication only that which is of truly scientific value and at the 
same time written so as to be intelligibl e, instructive, and interesting 
to the general scientific rea reader. 
All manuscripts, book s for review, exchanges, ete, should be- 
sent to THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Cambridge, Ma 
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