AMERICAN 
NATURALIST 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL 
DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES 
IN THEIR WIDEST SENSE 
CONTENTS 
$ The Compound and Mixed Nests of American Ants. Part I 
Professor W. M. WHEELER 431 
II. The Louisiana Deer ; . GLOVER M. ALLEN 449 
III. On the Osteology and Systematic Position of the acceda 
(Palamedea: Chauna) : . Dr. B, W.SHUFELDT 455 
IV. Normal Respiration mud "Papiae le 14 E + : A. 2 d 
Professor 9. J. PEIRCE 463 ^ 
V. On the EN and T m TE (Fontaria EAS 
Virginiensis ABRAM V. MAUCK 477 — 
vL Synopses of Torin merca furersbcutk XV. The The P 
VIL Editorial Genai: Death of Dr. Litken, Schoo! Science, ‘Goode Memo- 
rial Volume 
VIIL. Reviews of of Recent Literature: ‘Anthropology, General Observations on | 499 
Anthropometry, The North Americans of Yesterday — Botany, A Coa 503. 
North-American Plants, Notes — Pa/eobofany, Elements of 509 
Paoay Note  . p : 
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