VOL. XXXII, No. JE OCTOBER, 1898 
THE 
AMERICAN 
NATURALIST 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL 
DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES 
IN THEIR WIDEST SENSE 
CONTENTS 
I. The Animals K: to the Eski f Northwestern Alaska . JOHN MURDOCH 
II. Methods in Planktology . . GEORGE WILTON FIELD 
III. Some New Points in Dinichthyia Oetsings cele ey ce. ee 
IV. The Wings of Insects, IV . . J. H. COMSTOCK and J, G. NEEDHAM 
V. Note sin tia: a the Teleutospores of Puccinia Windsorie 
VI. Editorial: A Marine Biological Station for Canada 
VIL. Reviews of Recent Literature : A Teacher’s Guide in Nature Study, Needham’s 
Outdoor Studies a Pati, Parker and Haswell’s Zoology, Some Recent 
Faunistic Work in Europe, Lake Fauna, The Embryonic Development of the _ 
Wall-Bee (Chalicodoma muraria Fabr.), Tumors and Germ-Layers, A New — 
Journal of Parasitology, The Weigert Methods — Botany, Britton and Brown’s A 
Flora, Detmer and Moor’s Physiology, Minnesota Botanical Studies, Edible 
ineralogy, 
in Italy, The Rocks Associated with the Iron Ores in Switzer- 
land, Swiss Schists, Nomenclature of Contact Rocks, —* i 
Meteorites, Mineralogical Notes 
VIII. Scientific News 
IX. Publications Received 
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