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WE have several distinct reasons for bringing this useful periodical before the notice of our readers. In the first place, American Naturalists and writers on science generally complain, and not altogether without reason, that many of the most important works that issue from the Transatlantic press are much less known in this country than their merits deserve. Our personal experience leads us to believe that this complaint is well founded. We lately applied in vain to the Libraries of the Royal Society, of the University of Cambridge, and of a Scottish University, for the American Naturalist and for Clark's “Mind in Nature ;” and we suspect that very few copies of such books as the following are to be found in English libraries, namely, a complete set of the works of Agassiz since he went to America, Binney's “Terrestrial Mollusks of the United States,” Gould and Binney's “Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts,” Tooney and Holmes's “Fossils of South Carolina,” Samuel's “Birds of New England,” Dekay's “Fishes and Reptiles of New York,” the reports on the Pacific and other Railway Surveys, and the numerous contributions to science published during the last few years, by Marsh, Lea, Leidy, Hall, Wynam Baird, Coues, Packard, Scudder, Le Conte, Stimpson, Verrill, and a host of other writers.
The American Naturalist.
A popular illustrated Magazine of Natural History. Vols. 1, 2, and 3, from March 1867, to February 1870. (Salem, Mass. Peabody Academy of Sciences. London: Trübner.)
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D., G. The American Naturalist. Nature 2, 186 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002186a0
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