The American Naturalist ; 
A Popular Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Natural 
History and Travel. 
Announcement for 1877. 
This journal of popular Natural Science will continue to be published by Mkssrs. 
H. 0. Houghton & Co., Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., under the editorial 
management of Dii. A. S. Packard, Jr., with the assistance of eminent men of 
science. 
Since January, 1876, the amount of matter given in each number has been in- 
creased over former volumes. The typographical dress and illustrations which have 
heretofore given character to this magazine have been improved, and it is of a thor- 
oughly popular naiure, so as to interest the general reader as well as the young 
naturalist. It will continue to be a journal of science-education and for the use of 
science-teachers. 
Its Features for 1877. 
In 1876 the latter half of the magazine Avas entirely remodelled, and a department 
of Geography and Travel added. The Department of Botany will be ed ted, 
as formerly, by Prof, G. L. Goodale, of Harvard University. That of Microscopy 
will be edited, as heretofore, by Dr. R. H. Ward, Troy, l^ew York. Arrangements 
have been made to report the Proceedings of Scientific Societies with great 
promptness. A d g st of the Contents of Foreign Scientific Journals and 
Transactions will also be given each month, together with the JLatest Home 
and Foreign J^cientific News. 
The attention of publishers and teachers is called to critical notices of scientific 
books, to which especial attention will be given. 
Articles for Vol. XI, 1877, 
By Professor.s Asa Gray, J. D. Whitney, N. S. Shaler, W. G. Farlow, G. L. Goodale, 
of Harvard University ; Pr fessors 0. C. Marsli, A. R. Verrill, of Yale College ; 
Mr. A. Agrs=iz, Hon. Lewis H. Morgan, Col. Theodu'e Lyman, Mr. L. F. Pourtalea, 
Mr. S. H. Scudder. Professors K. D. Cope, F. V. Hayden, A. Hyatt ; Drs. Elliott 
Cones, W. H. Ddl, C. C. Abbott, Rev. S. Lockwood, J. A. Allen, H. Gillman, C. C. 
Parry, R. E. C. S'.e’rns, 0. T. Hinson, and other leading naturalists, are either in 
hand or promised. Notes from abroad will occasionally be contributed by Mr. Alfred 
W. Bennett, the d stinguished English Bo'anist. 
Note. — The t^n volumes which have been published form an elegantly printed 
and illusti'ated LT)rary of American Natural History, invaluable for school, co'leg^*, 
and pub’ic I brariss. They contain standard articles by Agassiz, Dana, Wyman, 
Gray, Whitrev, Leidy, Cope, Hunt, Dawson, Newberry, Marsh, Verriil, Morse*, Gil', 
Cones, Scudder, Hagen, Dali, Shaler, Brewer, Rklgway, Parry, Caton, Abbott, 
Farlow, Lockwood, Grote, Ward, and many other scientists. 
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