The American Naturalist. 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 

 J. A. ALLEN, Ph.D., American Museum of Natural History, Nrw York. 

 E. A. ANDREWS, VVL.Ti Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 

 WILLIAM 5. BAYLEV, Fh.D., Colby University, IVuievvilU. 

 DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL, Ph.D., Stanford University. 

 J. H. COMSTOCK, S.B., Cornell University, Ithaca. 

 WILLIAM M. DAVIS, M.E., Harvard University, Cambridge. 

 ALES HRDLICKA, M.D., U.S. National Museum, Washington. 

 D. S. JORDAN, LL.D., Stanford University. 



CHARLES A. KOFOID, Ph.D., Ufiiverszty of California, Berkeley 



J. G. NEEDHAM, Ph.D., Lake Forest University. 



ARNOLD E. ORTMANN, Ph.D., Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg. 



D. P. PENHALLOW,D.Sc.,F.R.M.S., McGill University, Montreal. 



H. M. RICHARDS, S.D., Columbia University, iVew York. 



W. E. RITTER, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. 



ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, LL.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 



ERWIN F. SMITH, S.D., US 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. 



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, 

 Botany, Paleontology, Geology and Physical Geography, and Miner- 

 alogy and Petrography. The contents each month will consist of 

 leadmg ongmal articles containing accounts and discussions of new 

 discoveries, reports of scientific expeditions, biographical notices of 

 distinguished naturalists, or critical summaries of progress in some 

 line; and m 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 

 gifts, appointments, retirements, and deaths. 



All naturalists who have anything interesting to say are invited 

 to send m their contributions, but the editors will endeavor to select 

 tor 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. 



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