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as articles of diet. The combined output of the various 

 laboratories and stations of this nature is very considerable, 

 and their influence upon the progress of biology is properly 

 included under the head of present tendencies. 



The organization of laboratories in our great universities 

 and their product exercise a wide influence on the progress of 

 biology, that science having within twenty-five years come to 

 occupy a position of great importance among the subjects of 

 general education. 



Establishment and Maintenance of Technical Periodicals. 

 -It is manifestly very important to provide means for the 

 publication of results and, as needed, to have technical 

 periodicals established and properly maintained. Their 

 maintenance can not be effected on a purely commercial 

 basis, and the result is that some of our best periodicals re- 

 quire financial assistance in order to exist at all. The sub- 

 sidizing and support of these periodicals aid materially in 

 the biological advance. A typical technical periodical is 

 Schultze's famous Archiv fur Mikroscopische Anatomic, 

 founded in 1864 by Schultze and continued to the present 

 time. Into its pages go the highest grade of investigations, 

 and its continued existence has a salutary influence upon the 

 progress of biology. The list of technical periodicals would 

 be too long to name, but among others the Morphologisches 

 Jahrbuch of Gegenbaur, and JLoelliker'sZeitschriftfurWisseit- 

 schajtUche Zoologie have had wide influence. In England 

 the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science is devoted to 

 morphological investigations, while physiology is provided 

 for in other journals, as it is also in Germany and other 

 countries. In the United States the Journal oj Morphology, 

 edited by C. O. Whitman, passed through seventeen volumes 

 and was maintained on the highest plane of scholarship. 

 The fine execution of the plates and the high grade of typo- 

 graphical work made this journal conspicuous. It repre- 



