THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 
J. A. ALLEN, Pu.D., American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
E. A. ANDREWS, PH.D., Johns fee — Baltimore. 
WILLIAM S. BAYLEY, Pu.D., Colby University, Waterville. 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, Pu.D., Yale Guiones, New Haven 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL, Pu.D., Leland E Junior niorit. Cal. 
J. H. COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell University, [tha 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard Sater sty; R idge. 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Zeland Stanford Junior e — Ornia. 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, PH.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, 7il. 
D. P. PENHALLOW, S.B., F.R.M.S., McGill Salmi, Mosii. 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, New York. 
W. E RITTER, Pu.D., Hoge re of California, SEA 
FRANK RUSSELL, Pu.D., Harvard University, Cambridge. 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S. =a v. S. Department of jp ENA Washington. 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Smithsonian Institution, -e 
W. TRELEASE, S.D., Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis 
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- 
_ alogy and Petrography. The contents each month will consist of 
leading original articles containing accounts a discussions of new 
discoveries, reports of scientific expeditions, biographical notices of 
disting naturalists, or critical summaries of progress in some 
points of interest, editorial comments on scientific questions of the 
day, critical reviews of recent literature, and a final department for 
scientific news and personal notices. 
: All na who have anything interesting to say are invited- 
to send in their contributions, but the editors will endeavor to select 
for pan only that which is of truly scientific value and at the 
time written so as to be intelligible, instructive, and interesting 
to oe general scientific reader. 
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