The American Naturalist 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 
J. A. ALLEN, PH.D., American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
E. A. ANDREWS, PH.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 
WILLIAM S. BAYLEY, Pu.D., Colby University, Waterville. 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, PH.D., Yale University, New Haven 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL, Pu.D., Leland Stanford Junior Piver iip, Cal. 
J. H. COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell University, Jthac 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard on ean T 
ALES HRDLICKA, M.D., Mew York C: 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Zeland PESE S University, California. 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, PH.D., University of ilinois, Urbana, Lil. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, PH.D., Lake Forest University. 
ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, Pu.D., Princeton University. 
D. P. PENHALLOW, S.B., F.R.M.S., Mc Gill University, Montreal. 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, Ne 
W. E. RITTER, Pu.D., University of California, Berkeley. 
FRANK RUSSELL, Pu.D., Harvard University, Cambridge. 
ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, LL.D., yon seen of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D., U. S. Department of Agriculture, ee 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Soan Institution, ses a ngton 
W. TRELEASE, S.D., Serao Botanical Garden, St. L 
HENRY B. WARD, PH.D., University of Nebraska, asia 
S. WATASE, PH.D. ee of Chicago. 
THE RICAN NATURALIST is an illustrated monthly magazine 
of Natural itor 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 and discussions of new 
discoveries, 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 ce oars and a final department for 
scientific news and personal n 
All naturalists who have ee interesting to say are invited 
to send in their contributions, but the editors will endeavor to select 
for publication only that which is of truly scientific value and at the 
ime written so as to es instructive, and interesting 
to the general scientific rea 
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sent to THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Cambridge, 
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