VOL. XXXIII, NO. 385 JANUARY, 1899 
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THE 
AMERICAN 
NATURALIST 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL 
DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES 
IN THEIR WIDEST SENSE 
CONTENTS 
eon Forestry and dipseapncgiert sus Jersey (with 
map) _ Dr. ARTHUR ‘HOLLICK 
George Baur’ Lite and Wri ritings : ` asang a: 
On the Specife Gravity of Spirostomum, am, Patamacium, and the ee o, 
in Relation to the Problem of Geotaxis . ‘ JULIA B. PLATT 
Vernal Phenomena in the Arid Region Professor T. D. A. COCOKERELL 
A Review and Criticism of Seitaro Goto's Work on the Dev | ; es 
ment of Asterias Pallida Prof 
Editorials: The American vs. the B ritish Ässbċist 
The Utilization of Desert Areas, Animal Photograph ee 
s of Recent Literature: Mill’s Animal Paphalsay, Robert Mac Dougall ; no 
Nairi Novitates — Pang Biology: Animal Grafts ; Regeneration of Extir- _ 
22 e Jou 
pology: Observations o n the Muscular Variations of the Human 
lications of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, Frank Russell — Zoology: : 
Butler’s Birds of Indiana, Leonhard page oe Trouessart’s Catalogue z ae 
Mammals, Living and Extinct, J. A. A Generic aod Family _ Names of e 
Smith ; ay aa r Myristic ; ; 
Brunswick, /. F. C5 The Orchids of the Sikkim-Himalaya, “$ 
ican Flora, Botanical Notes — Petr r: The 
