AMERICAN NATURALIST 
ROBE H IT: P BIGELOW: PH.D; 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. 
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF AN EDITORIAL a. AND THE FOLLOWING 
AssociaTE EDIT : 
J. A. ALLEN, PH.D., American Museum of Natural History, asi York. 
E. >? oF PH.D. , Johns a University, Baltimor., 
G. BAUR, P. , University of Chica, 
WILLIAM S. BAYI iY PA Da Colby Arson —— 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, PH.D., Yale University, New Haven. 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL, Pu. D, Leland — [itor University, Cal. 
J. H. COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell Univer sity, Ith 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M. E., Harvard Univer. PEE, Cambr: idge. 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Leland Stanford Junior ae Cali, sacs 
CHARLES A. KOF OID, PH.D., University of 4 sees , Urbana 
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D. P. PENHALLOW, S.B, F.R.M.S., IG "e Unine sity, 2 Montreal. 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D. Colum bia Sins 
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USSELL, AB, S.M., % a a basse ity, yet 
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LEONHARD STEJN EGER, PH. D., Smith — — Washington. 
W. TRELEASE, S , Missouri Botanic al Garden, St. Lou 
S. WATASE, Pu. De University of Chicago. 
THE AMERICAN NATURALIST is an illustrated monthly magazine 
of Natural History, and will aim to present to its readers the leading 
facts and discoveries in Anthropology, General Biology, Zoölogy, 
Botany, Paleontology, Geology and Physical Geography, and Mine- 
ralogy 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 pees editorial comments on scientific questions of the 
day, critical reviews of recent literature, and a final department for 
scientific news Fuad personal notices 
Il naturalists who have anything 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 
same time written so as to be intelligible, rstaatve and interesting 
_ to the general scientific reader. 
All manuscripts should be sent to the editors at the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. 
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