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Winter 1997
Vol. 50:1

cover fall 1999

This four-inch piece of Dominican amber contains a pseudoscorpion preserved for 25 to 30 million years.

Photograph courtesy of American Museum of natural history.

Departments
Counterpoints in Science
The Deconstruction of Science
Jerold M. Lowenstein

Horizons
Tough T. Rex Teeth
Planetary Protection
Blake Edgar

Habitats
Salton Sea Sickness
Gordy Slack

Here at The Academy
Nina Jablonski Trails Chinese Monkeys
Blake Edgar

Reviews
Dan Imhoff
on Becoming a Native

Features
Message in a Meteor
Maybe men and women are from Mars
Blake Edgar

A Letter from the Field
Galapagos Islands: A Half Mile Down
John E. McCosker

At Home in the
Natural World

Naturalist's Almanac
What to look for this Winter
Gordy Slack

Wild Lives
Giant Salamanders
Barbara Sleeper

Not available online:
Golden Years
Amber: Precious Preserver of the Past
David Grimaldi

The Owl and The Squirrel
Of Branches and Burrows, Forests and Fairways
Sharon Levy

On Her Terms
Katharine Brandegee: First Woman of Western Botany
Elizabeth Rush

Editorial
Old Fossils
Keith K. Howell

Skyguide
Mars: A "Backward" Planet
Bing F. Quock

Letters
Antioch Dunes Evening Primrose