‘The American Naturalist. 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 
J. A. ALLEN, PH.D., American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
E. A. ANDREWS, PH.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 
WILLIAM S. BAYLEY, Pu.D., Colby University, fiet 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, PH.D., Yale University, New Hav 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard D Comivide: 
ALES HRDLICKA, M.D., New York s 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Stanford Univ. 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, Pu.D., ae of illinois, Urbana. 
J- G. NEEDHAM, PH.D., Lake Forest Univer. 
ize. 
ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, LL.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
_.. ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D, U.S. D Department of. Agriculture, ro 
: LEONHARD STEJNEGER, pein Institution, Was. Aingion 
J W. TRELEASE, i ical 
THE AMERICAN NATURALIST is an illustrated monthly magazine 
x Natural History, and will aim to present to its readers the leading 
. articles containing accounts and discussions of new 
ries, reports of age ‘expeditions, biographical notices of 
natur tical ies of 
rial comments on scientific questions of the 
' set of ined literature, and a final department for | 
. All naturalists ists who ae anything interesting to say are invited 
nd in their adaa but the editors endeavor to select 
only that which is of truly scien RAUS value and at the - 
to be one, instructive, and i inter esting : 
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