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'The American Naturalist. 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 
J. A. ALLEN, Pu.D., American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
E. A. ANDREWS, PH.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 
WILLIAM S. BAYLEY, PH.D., Colby University, jees 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, PH. D. Yale University, New Hav 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL, Pu. D., Leland Stanford Junior Deer Cal. 
J. H. COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell University, Ithaca 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, ME, Harvard University, unire. 
ALES HRDLICKA, M.D., Vew York k City. 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Leland Stanford Junior University, California. 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, Pu.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, Lil. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, PH.D., Lake Forest University. 
ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, PH.D., Princeton University. 
D. P. PENHALLOW, S.B., F.R.M.S., McGill University, Montreal. 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Colanbia University, New York. 
W. E. RITTER, Pu.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 Agriculture, Washington. 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Snia emque ses hington. 
W. TRELEASE, S.D., Missouri Botanical Garden 
HENRY B. WARD, Tu .D., University of aiken: Ea 
S. WATASÉ, PH.D., University 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, 
Botany, Paleontology, Geology and Physical Geography, and Miner- 
d Petrography. The contents each month will consist of 
leading original articles containing accounts and discussions of new 
Se reports of scientific expeditions, 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 literature, and a final department for 
scientific news and Seer notices. 
e anything interesting to say are invited 
naturalists 
to send in their oioi, but E es will endeavor to select 
for publication only that which is entific value and at the 
e time written so as to be intelligibile. mainie: and interesting 
to the general scientific reader. 
All manuscripts, books for review, €—Á etc., should be 
sent to THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Cambridge, Mass. 
All business communications should be sent direct to the 
publishers 
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Foreign sul bseription, $4.60. 
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