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AMERICAN 
NATURALIST | 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL 
DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES 
IN THEIR WIDEST SENSE. 
MANAGING EDITORS: 
Prors. E. D. COPE, Philadelphia, AND J.-S. pt iie EY, Tufts College, College Hill,- Mass; 
ASSOCIATE iniae 
Dr. C. O.. WHITMAN, Chicago, 
Pror. C. M. W ee D, Durham, N. is Back Ww. 
oF. W. H. HOBBS, apma Wis 
S. BAYL 
. BESSEY, Linco 
EY, a> eria. Maine, 
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ANDREWS, Baltimore, 
r. WM. ROMAINE NEWBOLD, Philadelphia. 
RW IN F. SMITH, EE Ð. C 
Vol. X XIX. 
SEPTEMBER, 1895. 
No. 345 — 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
THE PRESENT STANDING OF THF FLORIDA MANA- 
E, TRICHECHUS Ares (HARLAN) 
IN THE INDIAN RIVER WAT 
Oak am: Bangs. 
A. New CLASSIFICATION THE LEPIDOPT 
(Continued.) Illustrated.) AS Atg eri 788 
“DEVIATION IN DEVELOPMENT DUE TO THE USE O 
PNRIRE SHEDS, Oe ars, fe Gh Apaku, 804 
THE EFFECT OF FEMALE SUFFRAGE ON POSTERITY. 
f James Weir, Jr. 
- Epiror’s. Taste—Coéducation—-Execution py 
: Electricity — The kag TE The 
Challenger Explorat 
RECENT LITERATURE—From the Gia to Dar: 
—The PHN ‘Nightmare ~~ the 
: Flood. ; 9 
Recent Books AND PAMPHLETS. . . =. = + 881 
3 GENERAL NOTES. 
. Mineralogy me bed Stage for the Micros- 
5 onnection Between Atomic Weight of 
Contained Metals ine Morphological’ and 
_ Optical Properties of Crystals—Boleite and 
- Nautokite from Broken Hill, N. S. W—New 
> poer from Chili—Miscellaneous. . 
z cology. and Paleontology The Protolenus 
7 Faunas Form ‘mation of Oolite—The Extinction 
Geology of Cuba—Form 
Altitu de of Greenland—Age of the Sandstones 
of Crowley’s Ridge—Geological: News. . - 839 
Botany — itu T Botany 
Mountains. . 
Vegetable -Physi Boreh ler on Bact a— 
The session Gardens of South American See 
ae ts. 
in the 
pias Cair i EREI P epro 
Pny of-the Edible Crab—The “Odonata of ; 
Skull in the Mosasauridae. (Illustrated.)— 
N Xantusia—Bats een Charlotte 
s of the 
Islands, British Columbia—Migratio ; 
Lemming—The Brain of Microcephalie Idiots 
—Zoological Eok Birds. . REA 
Entomology —Chordeumi dæ or Craspedoso- EEN 
matidæ—On the Generic Names Strigami R 
Linoteenia and Scolioplanes—Picobia Villoca. 362 as 
Embrvolegy — Conjugation in an esis 
iar (iit wetted) 
Psychol; T Shes Baldwi bon Mental 
Developme ychie Factor”—-The 
gitar Switch | Tender—Change of Habit in 
a - 873 
Antropolog Another Andei Hamát Jaw gre 
of the Naulette Type--Sandals in So ai ars 
Strange Tints for Anthropology. . 876 
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