The American Naturalist. 



DOUGLAS H CAMPBELL, V\i T>., 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., Umverszty of California, Berkelt* 

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

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

 D. p. PENHALLOW.D.ScF.R.M.S., McGill University, Montreal, 

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

 W. E. RITTER, Ph.D., U^iiversity of California, Berkeley. 

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

 EKW IN F. SMITH, S.D., US Department ^f Agriculture, Washtng 

 LEONIIARD STEJNEGER, -Ll^.'D.. Smithsonian Institution Washt 

 W. TRELEASE, S.D., Mtssourt Botanical Garden, St. Louis. 

 HENRY B. WARD, ¥n D., Un/versitv of Nebraska, Lincoln. 

 WILLIAM M. WHEELER, Ph.D., ' American Museum of Natural 



of Natural 

 facts and 



American Naturalist is an illustrated monthly magazine 

 i History, and will aim to present to its readers the leading 

 discoveries in Anthropology, General Biology, Zoology, 

 iiotany. Paleontology, Geology and Physical Geography, and Miner- 

 alogy and Petrography. The contents e.ch month will consist of 

 eading original articles containing accounts and discussions of new 

 ports of scientific expeditions, biographical notices of 



distinguished naturalis 



: there will be 1 



literature, and a quarterly record of 

 and deaths. 



iiists who have anything interesting to say are invited 

 r contributions, but the editors will endeavor to select 

 only that which is of truly scientific value and at the 

 ten so as to be intelligible, instructive, and interesting 

 scientific reader. 



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