Part 27
The editors invite long or short articles; catalogues of animals or plants; sketches of past work of societies or individuals; reviews of books or other scientific publications. Articles too short for extended or general treatment, or papers too long or technical for semi-popular treatises, are especially invited. In short, the aim is to make a bulletin rather than a popular science journal.
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=Catalogue of Reptiles of Arkansas=; =History of Louisiana Botany; The Louisiana Gulf Biological Station=; =The Louisiana Society of Naturalists=; =A Bill before Congress for the Creation of a Government Biological Station and Fish Hatchery on the Louisiana Coast=; =Review of the Proceedings of the National Fishery Congress=; =Some Special Features of Avery's Island=; =The Behavior of Birds around their Nests or Young=.
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