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 Messrs. 
H. 0. Houghton & Co., Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., under the editorial 
management of Dr. 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 nature, 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 was entirely remodelled, and a department 
of Geography and Travel added. The Department of Botany will be edited, 
as formerly, by Prof. G. L. Goodale, of Harvard University. That of Microscopy 
will be edited, as heretofore, by Dr. R. H. Ward, Troy, New York. Arrangements 
have been made to report the Proceedings oi Scientific Societies with great 
promptness. A digest of the Contents of Foreign Scientific Journals and 
Transactions wiir also be given each month, together with the Fatest Home 
and Foreign Scientific 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 Professors Asa Gray, J. D. Whitney, N. S. Shaler, W. G. Farlow, G. L. Goodale, 
of Harvard University ; Prrfessors 0. C. Marsh, A. E. Verrill, of Yale College 5 
Mr. A. Agassiz, Hon. Lewis H. Morgan, Col. Theodore Lyman, Mr. L. F. Pourtales, 
Mr. S. H. Scudder, Professors E. D. Cope, F. V. Hayden. A. Hyatt ; Drs. Elliott 
Coues, W. H. Dali, C. C. Abbott, Rev. S. Lockwood, J. A. Allen, H. Gillman, C. C. 
Parry, R. E. C. Stearns, 0. T. Mason, and other leading naturalists, are either in 
ha-’d or promised. Notes from abroad will occasionally be contributed by Mr. Alfred 
W. Bennett, the distinguished English Botanist. 
Note. — The ten volumes which have been published form an elegantly printed 
and illustrated Libraiy of American Natural History, invaluable for school, college, 
and pub’ic hbrari<^s. They contain standard articles by Agassiz, Dana, Wyman, 
Gray, Whitney, Leidy, Cope, Hunt, Dawson, Newberry, Marsh, Verrill, Morse, Gill, 
Cou'^s, Scudder, Hagen, Dali, Shaler, Brewer, Ridgway, Parry, Caton, Abbott, 
Farlow, Lockwood, Grote, Ward, and many other scientists. 
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