VOL. XXXIV, No. gor’ 
THE 
AMERICAN 
NATURALIST 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL 
DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES 
IN THEIR WIDEST SENSE 
CONTENTS 
I. Marine Biology at Beaufort  . . Professor H. V. WILSON 
II. The Fruiting of the Blue Flag (Iris vated L.) 
Professor J. G. NEEDHAM 
HI. A Contribution to the Natural T and Development of 
Pennari 
nnaria tiarella McCr. Professor CHAS. W. HARGITT 
. R. W. SHUFELDT 
IV. The Worm ries Results of the Polar —— under 
Dr. Hen 
V. Synopses ae Takki EEE 1 The Scorpions, 
Solpugids, and Fedipalpi NATHAN BANES 
VI. Reviews of Recent Literature: edes. The Natural History of the 
VII. Pu 
Musical Bow, Report of the U. S. National Museum, 1897, Report of 
the Commissioner of Education for 1897-98, Notes — Genera! Biology, 
Protoplasmic Streamings — Zoó/ogy, A New Practical Zoólogy, Gogorza's 
List of the Vertebrate Animals of the Philippines, Lungless Salamanders, 
The Egg of the Hagfish, Waite's Fishes of the Thetis Expedition, Smitt 
on Lycodes, Abbott on Chilean Fishes, Moreno on the Olfactory Nerves 
of Fishes, California Water Birds, Ovogenesis in Tunicates, Reproduc- 
tion of Ameba, Arctic Deep-Sea Fauna, Arctic Marine Animals, Notes 
— Botany, Phenological Observations in Canada, King’s Irrigation and 
Drainage, Trimen’s Flora of Ceylon, Nuclear Phenomena in Ustilaginex, 
Cell Division in Sporangia and Asci, Notes — Petrography, The =o 
graphical Province of Essex AOS Mass.. N epheline-Syenites, No 
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