| THE 
AMERICAN 
ATURALIS 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL 
DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES 
IN THEIR WIDEST SENSE. 
ANAGING EDITORS: 
Prors. E. D. COPE, Philadelphia, anp J, S. KINGSLEY, Boston. 
pga EDITORS: i Bere 
go, Dr. C. Paro Lincoln, Neb., S fe OF pipe  Philabelphia, 
EED, Dur ham, N. H., Pros. W. Sa YLEY, Wat ee Maio, Pror. E. A. REWS, 
Hogg, Madison, Wis. IN: EIR N. Rugby; England. 
JANU ARY, 1894. 
CONTENTS. 
Honre 
eiiie OF SOM. [E CASES OF F APPARENT TRA 7 Santa Lucia, ese and a New Rock bais 
; ; ite—The # Locks of ee ag Fin- 
Pig: § otany.—Ellis an 
rea 3/001 15. | Fungi—A_ Synopis of the arget Groups 
iGO ESIL; A HyDROID SUPPOSED TO : Vegetable ari i i 
BE New, FROM COLD SPRING HARBOR, | Zoology- — ropodus Dallii sp- 
Lone Istanp. (Illustrated). Henry Leslie | | of Piumage Te he Bobolink Od. Three : 
Osborn and Charles W: se -97 | Genera of Characinide—Descr p ions 
Lies.” J M Ald 85 | New Rodents from Calilornie god Oregon o 
llusca—Pi sces—Rept t- 
(| Embryology. y: logy. of Sponges— 
38 ‘opement nt of the New —Amphionso—Expe 
40 ie on iva Ree Tom of. the 
; ages 
Archeole oy and 
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ravel Spec 
