The American Naturalist. 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 
J. A. ALLEN, Pu.D., American Museum of -— = = York. 
E. A. ANDREWS, Pu.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltim 
WILLIAM S. BAYLEY, Pu.D., Colby Dann, Water. 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, Pu.D., Yale University, New Haven. 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard University, Coie 
ALES Se. M.D., New York Ci 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Stanford Univ oak 
CHARLES a KOFOID, PH.D., University of e Urbana. 
W. E. RITTER, Pu.D., University of California, Berkeley. 
FRANK RUSSELL, PH.D., Harvard University, Cambridge. 
ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, LL.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S. D, U. S. Department of Agriculture, pun cua 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington 
W. TRELEASE, S.D., Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. 
HENRY B. WARD, PH.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 
WILLIAM M. WHEELER, PH.D., University of Texas, Austin. 
Botany, Paleontology, Geology and ee Guay and Miner- 
alogy and Petrography. The contents each month will consist of 
original articles containing accounts and discussions of new 
"iscoveries, reports of scientific expeditions, biographical notices of 
dis: d naturalists, or critical summaries of progress in some 
line; indi in addition to these there will be briefer articles on various 
points of interest, editorial comments on scientific questions of the 
y, critical reviews of recent literature, and a final departmen t for 
scientific news and personal notices. 
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