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Edited by
Dr. A. S. Packard,
and
Prof. E. D. Cope.

Associate
Editor.
{Mr. W. N. Lockington, Dept. of Geography and Travels.
{Prof. H. C. Lewis, Department of Mineralogy.
{Prof. C. E. Bessey, Department of Botany.
{Prof. Henry Sewall, Department of Physiology.
{Prof. O. T. Mason, Department of Anthropology.
{Dr. C. O. Whitman, Department of Microscopy.

The American Naturalist.
A Popular Illustrated Magazine of Natural History and Travel.

Letters on business connected with the American Naturalist should be addressed to the Publishers,
McCalla & Stavely, 237-9 Dock Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Terms of Naturalist,
$4.00 a year.

Providence, R. I., Jan. 15 1885

My dear Prof. Bessey:

I hope you find yourself
at home & well situated in your new quarters?
If [?] this year we cannot [?] an exchange
list. The fact is, speaking confidentially
we have got to [?] [?] subscription list and
economic – and get [more?] readable popular
articles – as people complain that the Naturalist
is too dry and scientific. Can you not get
some readable, popular articles – one for
the March no. why not write me yourself
for that no?

I do not know anything about the enclosed
bill. We used to exchange with the [Gardeners?] [?]
at Salem, but [now I have?] [?] [to do?] [?] the
matter of exchanges. I would stop their journal [it?]
is not [?] much for your [?] any way I
suppose, as you never seem to [?] from it.

Yours resptfully,
A. S. Packard.