
The American Naturalist. 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 
J. A. ALLEN, PH.D., American Museum of Natural Mi ic New York. 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E. Harvard Fe bridge. 
ALES HRDLIC KA, M.D., U.S. Nation = useum, Pakini 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D, Stanford Univer. 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, PH.D., Unteriy of California, Berkeley. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, Pu.D., Lake Forest University. 
ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, P Pu.D., Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg. 
D. P. PENHALLOW, D.Sc, F.R.S.C., McGill University, Montreal. 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, New York. 
WER ITTER, PH.D., University of Cali ifornia, Berkeley. 
ISRAEL C. RU SSELL, ELD University o of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S. D., U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washin, chan 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, LL.D., Smithsonian mor tion, Washington. 
W. TRELEASE, S.D., Missouri Wal Garden, Si 
HENRY B. WARD, Pn. D., University of Ne tg acude 
—WILLIAM M. WHEELER, PH.D., American Museum of Natural History, 
: New Ysk 

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x = THE AMERICAN NATURALIST is an illustrated monthly magazine 
= = Natural History, and will aim = — to its readers the leading 







al articles containing accounts and discussions of new 
les, reports of scientific expeditions, biographical notices of 
guished naturalists, or critical summaries of progress in some 
| n addition to these there will be briefer articles on various 
points of interest, editorial comments on scientific questions of the 
. day, critical reviews of recent literature, and a quarterly record of 
its, appointments, retirements, and deaths. 
Il naturalists wed have anything interesting to say are invited 
3 their contri ns, but the editors will endeavor to select 
IN y that which is of truly scientific value and at the 
ten so as to be intelligible, instructive, and interesting 



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