The American Naturalist. 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 

WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard Un "hers Tantri. 
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D. S. JORDAN, LL.D, Stanford Unive 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, PH.D, linon. of California, Berkeley. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, PH.D., Za£e Forest University. 
ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, PH.D., Princeton University. - 
D. P. PENHALLOW, S.B., F.RMS, McGill I User. Montreal. 
H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, New Yor 
W. E. RITTER, Pu.D., jas S California, bes 
FRANK RUSSELL, PH.D., Harvard Univ tversity, Cambridge 
ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, dSoiitkcenian Institution, Washington. 
W. TRELEASE, S.D., Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. 
HENRY B. WARD , PR. D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln 
WILLIAM M. WHEELER, PH.D., University of Texas, Austin. 











E 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 — and Miner- 
alogy and Petrography. The contents each month will consist of 
leading original articles containing accounts and discussions of new 
discoveries, reports of scientific expeditions, biographical notices of 
distinguished | naturalists, or critical summaries of progress in some 
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 
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