VoL. XXXII, No. 375” MARCH, 1898 
THE 
AMERICAN 
NATURALIST 
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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 
DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES 
IN THEIR WIDEST SENSE 
CONTENTS 
I. Louis Agassiz. 
II. The Philosophical Views of Agassiz . . . . ALPHEUS S. PACKARD 
III. Agassiz and the Ice Age. . - . o  . @. FREDERICK WRIGHT 
IV. Agassiz on Recent Fishes . . . .  .  . DAVID STARR JORDAN 
V. Agassiz’s Work on Fossil Fishes . . CHARLES R. EASTMAN 
VI. Agassiz’s Work on the Embryology of the Turtle GERTRUDE C. DAVENPORT 
VII. Agassiz at Penikese 5 tte BURT G. WILDER 
VIII. Editorials: March, 1848, The inoks a a No Era in the mage of Zoology 
in America — The Fur-Seal Problem. 
IX. Reviews of Recent Literature: History of the Smithsonian Institution, Proceed- 
ings of the Indiana Academy of Science — Anthropology, The Races of 
Europe — Zoology, The Development of Fresh-Water Bryozoa, Lepidosiren, 
Fishes of the Vicinity of New York City — Botany, Ripening of Fleshy Fruits, 
Ferns of Nicaragua, Pharmaceutical Archives, Indiana Botany, — Cane, = ; 
Digestion in Pitcher Plants, Primitive Angiosperms, New Species of eee tee 
Botanical Notes. 
X. Scientific News. 
XI. Correspondence: Some Generic Characters. 
XII. Books Received, 
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