The American Naturalist 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS 

 J. A. ALLEN, Ph.D., American Museum of Natural History, New Y(yrk 

 E. A. ANDREWS, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, BaUimare 

 WILLIAM S. BAYLEY, Ph.D., Colby University, WatervUle 

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

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

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

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

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

 CHARLES A. KOFOID, Ph.D., University 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.S.C, McGill UniversUy, Montreal 

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

 W. E. RITTER, Ph.D., Univer^y of California, Berkeley 

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

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

 LEONHARD STEJNEGER, LL.D., SmUhsonian InstUution, Washington 

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

 HENRY B. WARD, Ph.D., UniversUy of Nebraska, Uncoln 

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

 New York 



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 

 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 

 line; 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 quarterly record of 

 gifts, appointments, retirements, and deaths. 



All 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. 



All manuscripts, books for review, exchanges, etc., should be 

 sent to The American Naturalist, Cambridge, Mass. 



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