The American Naturalist, Том 28

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Essex Institute, 1894

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Relation between Atomic Weight and Crys
699
proaching Meeting of the A A A SThe
706
Archeology and EthnologyAncient American
716
SCIENTIFIC NEWS
722
Biological Station of the University
723
The Origin of the Subterranean Fauna of North America Illustrated A
727
The Numerical Intensity of Faunas L P GRAtacap
752
The Development of the Wing of Sterna wilsonii Illustrated V J LEIGH
761
A Littleknown Jamaican Naturalist Dr Anthony Robinson T D A Cock
775
RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
784
GENERAL NOTES
793
of DakotaLower Eocene Mammals near
799
Shrubs of Northern Nebraska
803
ZoologyOn the Vertical Distribution
807
FaunasThe Carotid Thymus and Thyroid
813
MicroscopyNotes on Gold Impregnation
825
THE EDWARDS DOCKER
830
The Classification of Snakes Illustrated E D COPE 431
830
Limits of Biological Experiment Dr M MILES
845
Abalone or Haliotis Shells of the Califórnia Coast M B WILLIAMSON
849
The Duration of Niagara Falls DR J W SPENCER
859
RECENT LITERATUREThe Colorado Formation
865
Crystallization of HerderiteComposition
871
New Sulphostannate from BoliviaAllanite
877
ZoologyParthenogenesis among the Arari
888
Birds of Paradise from
890
Bobolink Change of Plumage
895
Lower Animals
898
SCIENTIFIC News
906
PHILADELPHIA U S
907
The Mechanical Cause of Folds in the Aperture of the Shells of Gasteropoda
909
Some Birds of Paradise from New Guinea Illustrated G S MEAD
915
The Psychology of Hypnotism JAS WEIR M D
921
Rules of Nomenclature Adopted by the International Zoological Congress
929
Bolitophila luminosa
961
PsychologyThe Recidivist 537 Mutualists 713 The Habit of Amusement
966
Microscopy Orienting Small Objects for Sectioning and Fixing them
977
Quaternary Time Divisible in Three PeriodsThe Lafayette Glacial
978
The Homologies of the Uredineæ The Rusts Illustrated C E BESSEY
989
On the Evolution of the Art of Working in Stone A Preliminary Paper by
997
Zoology in the High School C M WEED
1003
EDITORIALS The Languages in Science 38 Philadelphia and the Chicago
1013
Geology and Paleontology A Food Habit of the Plesiosarus 50 The Texas
1023
Botany Ellis and Everharts North American Fungi 63 A Synopsis
1034

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