


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, PH.D., Coly University, Waterville. 
CHARLES E. BEECHER, Pu.D., Yale University, New Haven. 
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL, PH.D., Stanford eae 
J. H. COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell Uoma 2? 
WILLIAM M. DAVIS, ME, Ha Sere Un neri A 
ALES HRDLICKA, M.D., We 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Stanford es 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, PH.D., , Unser of California, Berkeley. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, PH.D., Lake Forest University. 
ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, PH.D., Princeton University. 
D. P. PENHALLOW, S.B., F.R.M.S., McGill University, Montreal. 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, New 
W. E. RITTER, PH.D., Usiverid of California, Berkeley. 
FRANK RUSSELL, PH.D., Harvard University, Cambridge. 
ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, LL.D., soos xs of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Heres ia 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Sa IAN 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. 
THE AMERICAN NATURALIST is an illustrated monthly magazine 
of Natural History, and will aim to present to its readers the leading 
facts and discoveries in Anthropology, General Biology, Zoology, 
tany, Paleontology, Geology and Physical Geography, and Miner- 
alogy and Petrography. The contents deem month will consist of 
leading original articles containing accounts and discussions of new 
discoveries, reports of scientific expe en biographical notices of 
ine; and in 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 final department for 
scientific news and personal notices. 
l naturalists who have anything interesting to say are invited 
to send in their contributions, but the editors will endeavor to select 
for publication only that which is of truly scientific value and at the 
same time written so as to be intelligible, instructive, and interesting 
to the general scientific reader. à 
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