The American Naturalist. 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 

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

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

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

 CHARLES E. BEECHER, Ph.D.,*^ University, New Haven. 

 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., University of California, Berkeley. 



J. G. NEEDHAM, Ph.D., Lake Forest CnivA-tity 



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



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



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



W. E. RITTER, Ph.D., r,nze,. lt t < , , Berkeley. 



FRANK RUSSELL, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge. 



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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. 



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 

 Astingiushed 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 



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