VOL. XXXII, No. 383° NOVEMBER, 1898 
THE 
AMERICAN 
NATURALIST 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL 
DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES 
IN THEIR WIDEST SENSE 
CONTENTS o 
I. Variation versus Heredity . eee HENRY S$. WILLIAMS — 
IL. Mais tac a Fees of Dolt SC . WILLIAM PATTEN 
HI: Somo Unique Examples of Dispersion of Sens and Fruits - - -WI DRL 
IV. The Advance of Biology in 1896 . : C. B. DAVENPORT — 
V. Editorials: The New York State Collexe of Forestry — a Concilium Biblio- P 
graphicum 
VI. Reviews of Recent Literature: Anthropology, Prehistoric Burial - 
— General Biology, Filose Activity in Metazoan Eggs, A Co ey ae 
of Special Creation, Fusion of Pups — , The Fresh-Water Fauna of ee 
Ceylon, Butler’s Birds of Indiana, Fishes of the Canary Islands, Development Z 
of Chilopods, Notes — Botany, Frank’s Agricultural Botany, The Wisconsin 
Survey, Life Zones and Crop Zones, Bray’s Lower Sonoran na Ent _— 
Tron Woods, Botanical Notes ; = 
VII. Scientific News 
VIII. Publications Received 
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