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, Waterville. 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, PH.D., Yale University, New Haven. 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL, PH.D., Leland Stanford Junior University, Cal. 
J. H. COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell University, Ithaca 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard ae Comiriket: 
ALES HRDLICKA, M.D., Mew York ; 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Zeland Tard Junior University, California. 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, PH.D., University of re nois, Urbana, Ll. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, PH.D., Lake Forest Universit 
ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, PH.D., Princeton Hates 
D. P. PENHALLOW, S.B., F.R.M.S., McGill University Montreal. 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, Ne 
W. E. RITTER, Pu. z ai versity of California, Berkeley. 
FRANK RUSSELL, D., Harvard University, Cambridge. 
ISRAEL C. SR LLD; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D., U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington. 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Saioak Institution, KOSA ngton. 
W. FRELEASE, S.D., oe Botanical Garden, St: Lou 
HENRY B. WARD, PH.D., University of Nebraska, asain. 
S. WATASE, PH.D., Re of Chicago. 
‘THE AMERICAN NATURALIST is an illustrated monthly magazine 
of Heal 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 = month will consist of 
leading original articles containing accounts and discussions of new. 
discoveries, reports of scientific edos, biographical notices of 
distinguished naturalists, or critical summaries of progress in some 
ine; 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 mE taero and a final department for 
scientific news and persona 
All naturalists a s e interesting to say are invited 
to send in their contributions, but the editors will endeavor to select 
for DES only that which is of truly scientific value and at the 
e written so as to be intelligible, instructive, and interesting 
to the coer scientific reader. 
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