The American Naturalist. 
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WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard University, Cambridge. 
ALES HRDLICKA, M.D., New York City. 
D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Stanford University. 
CHARLES A. KOFOID, PH.D., University of California, Berkeley. 
J. G. NEEDHAM, Pu.D., Lake Forest Oniversity. 
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 York. 











ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington. 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER, LL.D., 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. 
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