THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST 
EDITED BY 
ROBERT P BIGELOW FHD, 
Massachusetts T nstitute of Technology, Boston. 
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF AN EDITORIAL sores AND THE FOLLOWING 
ASSOCIATE EDIT 
J. A. ALLEN, Pu.D., American Museum os Natural History, New York. 
>: A. ANDREWS, PH.D. , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 
WILLIAM S. BAYLEY, Pu.D., Colby University, pasik 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, PH. D., Yale University, Ne 
DOUGLAS H. CAMP BELL, PH.D., Leland Sta — gti Undoarstey, Cal. 
J. He COMSTOCK, SB; a Univers rsity, Lthac 
Agr eet M. DAV IS, M. i ard Uni nicer, Cambri 
S. JORDAN, LL.D., Leland $ anf ord Junior Univer. Cali fornia. 
CHARLES A. KOFOID H.D., Siesa F Sa — gy re iil. 
C. PALACHE, PH os Hara rd University, Cam 
D E: PEN HALLO JFR MS, We Gill Univer sion Montreal. 
= M. RICHARDS, SD. ‘Columbia Universit ity, New York. 
« RLE LER, PED; University a. snes Salons Be ri ey. 
FR RANK RUSSELL, A.B.» S.M., ard University, Cambridge. 
ERWIN C. SET È P CLT S Unbor sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
WIN F TS. Ferien of Agri —— Washington. 
LEON HARD ‘STEINI EGER, PH.D., Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 
W. TRELEASE ouri oa Korti St. Tass. 
S. WATASÉ, Pa, iers of Chica, 
THE AMERICAN NATURALIST is an illustrated monthly magazine 
of Natural History, and will aim to p resent to its readers the leading 
facts and discoveries in Anthropology, General Biology, Zoölogy, 
Botany, Paleontology, Geology aha 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 
po oints of interest, editorial comments on scientific questions of the 
day, critical reviews of recent Hren and a final department for 
scientific news and personal no 
All naturalists who have saring a to say are invited 
to send in their contributions, but the editor 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, instructive, and interesting 
to the general scientific reader. 
l manuscripts should be sent to the = at the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mas 
All oks for review, ee ete, ahoeld be sent to 
W. McM. Woopworrtu, Cambrid 
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