The American Naturalist. 
| ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 
A: ALLEN, Pu.D., American Museum of Natural un New York. 
SRE COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell University, 
. WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard Driver, oniripe. 
. ALES HRDLICKA, M.D., U.S. National Museum, Washington. 
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CHARLES A. KOFOID, PH.D., University of California, Berkeley. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, PH.D., Lake Forest University. 
ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, a Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg. 
D. P. PENHALLOW,D.Sc„F.R.M.S., McGill University, Mi Montreal. 
. H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, New York. 
W. E. RITTER, PH.D., University of Cali ifornia, Berkeley. 
ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, ELD. University of Michigan, Ann 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D., U. S. Department of Agriculture, ae 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, LL.D., Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 
W. TRELEASE, S.D., Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. 
HENRY B. WARD, PH.D., University of Nebraska, Lincol: 
WILLIAM M. WHEELER, PED. a American Museum of "Natural History, 
York. 
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... of Natural History, and will aim to present to its readers the leading 
facts and discoveries in Anthropology, General Biology, Zoology, 
_ Botany, Paleontology, Geology and Physical Geography, and Miner- 
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