1 1 1 2 The American Naturalist. 
Are the German Schweine-Seuche and the Swine Plague ol 
of the United States Identical Diseases? 
Walks Under the Sea by a Coral Strand. F. H. Herbick, 
The Etiological Classification of Diseases. Frank S. Billings 
The Silver Lake of Oregon and its Region. {Illustrated.) E. D. Cope . . 
Character and Distribution of the Genera of Brachiopoda. C. W. Rolfe . . 
The Gigantic Land Tortoises of the Galapagos Islands. G. Baur . . . . 1 
On Inheritance in Evolution. E. D. Cope 1 
On Variation : With Special Reference to Certain Palaeozoic Genera. Joseph 
F.James ] 
Editors' Table.— The American Society of Naturalists, 32— The New Year, 
33— Poverty vs. Crime, Feb. 151— The Post-Darwinian, Mar. 136— A 
Monument to Priestey, Mar. 137— Original Research in Pennsylvania, 
243 — The U. S. National Academy, 244— The American Society of Psy- 
chical Research, 24-5 — A National Flower, 484— Science in Newspapers, 
485— Scientific Research, 1088— American Naturalist, Note 1 
Recent Literature. — Thomas' Burial Mounds, 34 — Comstock's Entomology, 
35— Thomas' Catalogue of Marsupiaia and Monotremata, Feb. 152— The 
Classification of the Crinoidea, Feb. 153— Fritach and Katua's Crustacea 
of the Bohemian Cretaceous, Feb. 154 — Lang's Comparative Anatomy, 
Mar. 138— Birds of Iowa, Mar. 139— Plo Wright's Uredineae and Ustil- 
aginoe, 24-5- Haeckel's Report on the Siphonophorae, 425— White's Re- 
view of the Fossil Ostreidae. 425— Russel's Southern Oregon, 426— The 
Pelagic State of Young Fishes, 428— Wright on the Skull of the Siluroid 
Hypophthalmus, 426— Scudder's Mesozoic Cockroaches, 485— Lydek- 
ker's Fauna of the Karnul Caves, 486 — Brauner's Geology of the Ser- 
gipe-Alagoas Basin of Brazil, 486 — Hull's Geological Age of the North 
Atlantic Ocean, 487— Boulenger's Reptiles of the Solomon Islands, 487 
— Bennett and Murray's Crvptogaraic Botany, 487— Bastin's Botany, 
489— Dyer's Folk-lore of Plants, 489— The Requisite and Qualifying 
Conditions of Artesian Wells, 613— Synopsis of the Flora of the Laramie 
Group, 613— Scudder's Oldest Known Insect Larva, Mormolucoides 
articulatus, 613— Cope's Batrachia of North America, 793— Dr. Ph. J. 
J. Valentine on the Portuguese Discovery of Yucatan, 999— Schroeter's 
Fungi of Silesia, 1000— The Scientific Papers of Asa Gray 1 
Recent Books and Pamphlets.- 36, Feb. 154, Mar, 140, 247, 427, 555, 614, 
708,797, 
Geography and Travels.— .4/rica .- The Western Sahara, Feb. 158 — The 
Oasis of Figuig, Feb. 160— The Muni Question, Mar. 145— The City of 
Wazan, Mar. 146— Congo Free State, Mar. 147— Zanzibar, 147-Borelli'8 
Travels in Gallaland, 249— Mt. Kibo, 251, 433— The Bashilange, 431— 
Dr. Bauman, 433— The Zambesi-Congo Region, 534— Mr. Selou's Journey 
in the Zambesi Country, 535— The Ports of German East Africa, 616— 
The Boundaries of the Congo Free State, 616— Mr. Thomson's Travels 
in Morocco, 801— Mr. W. B. Harris' Travels in Morocco, 802— The 
French Slave Coast Possessions 
America: Cassiquiare, 40— The State of Michoacan, Mar. 141— Bolivia, Mar. 
141— The Limits of Venezuela and Brazil, 432— Fontana's Explorations 
in Patagonia, 433— The Gran Chaco, 799— The Selkirk Range Glaciers, 
800— Col. Labre's Travels 
Asia: Philippine Islands, 39, 160— Japan, 40— Railway in Persia, 146— 
Soundings in the Cushan Archipelago, 251— The Present Flora of Kra- 
katoa, 251— The Island Reunion, 252— New Guinea, 252— Capt. Binger's 
Journal, 253— The Ke Archipelago, 480— Formosa, 532— Another Rus- 
sian Journey in Central Asia, 617— Nepal, 617— The Upper Yenesei, 6l7 
— E. Dulio' 8 Journey from Shoato Assab, 618 — The Loe:^a of Central Asia, 
618— The Transcaspian Railway, 806— The D' Entrecasteaux Islands, 807 
