The desert iguana, one-third natural size. Note the tip of the tail 



which is being regenerated 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



A Journey to the Salton Sea. P. Munz 

 Impressions of Porto Rico. E. E. Barker 

 The Boy and a Brook. B. C. Reynolds - 

 A Night on Vesuvius. E. B. Whiting 

 The Yew Berry. Poem. E. M. Provost 

 Just Ooze and Slime. E. L. Palmer 

 Florida. Poem. W. P. Alexander 

 Geography and the Menagerie. E. Hausman 

 Note on the Cabbage Butterfly. F. E. White 

 Editorial - 



News Notes ----- 

 BookShelf 



1 

 10 

 13 

 23 

 26 

 27 

 32 

 33 

 43 

 44 

 45 

 46 



Anna B. Comstock, Editor 

 associate editors 



Susan Sipe Albertis - 

 Prof. J. Andrew Drushel 

 Prof. John Dearness - 

 Miss Cora A. Smith - 



Washington, D. C. 



St. Louis, Mo. 



London, Ontario 



Erie, Penna. 



Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffi.ee at Ithaca, N. Y. 

 under the Act of March j, 1870. 



