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Soc. In response to this offer the Council has voted that the See. 

 continue the Amer. Jour. of Physiol., and assume the ownership and 

 editorial control. Until a permanent arrangement is made at the 

 next annual meeting of the Soc, the business affairs of the Jour- 

 nal will be managed by the Treas., Dr. Joseph Erlanger, Wash- 

 ington Univ., St. Louis; and the editorial work will be in charge 

 of the Ed. Commit., Dr. W. H. Howell, Chairman, Johns Hopkins 

 Univ., Balt., Md. 



(Signed) W. B. Cannon, A. J. Carlson, Joseph Erlanger, F. S. 

 Lee, S. J. Meltzer, Members of the Council of the Amer. Physiol. 

 Soc, March i, 19 14. 



A second letter addressed to the members of the Amer. Physiol. 

 Soc. on this subject: 



With but a single dissenting vote the Amer. Physiol. Soc. has 

 decided to assume the responsibility of Publishing the Amer. Jour. 

 of Physiol, and the Journal is now the property of the Soc. Until 

 the permanent Organization of the Journal shall have been effected 

 by the Soc. at its next annual meeting, the business management 

 of the Journal devolves upon the Treas. Steps must be taken at 

 once to insure the financial success of the Journal, and it is obvious 

 that in the Interim, at least, the support must come largely in the 

 form of subscriptions for the Jourtial from members of the Soc. 

 Therefore, every member is urged to subscribe for the Journal and 

 also to actively solicit subscriptions from libraries and from indi- 

 viduals interested in physiology, either directly or indirectly. 



(Signed) Joseph Erlanger, Treas., March 9, 19 14. 



Editorial comment. It is announced that Dr. W. T. Porter 

 is to retire as editor of the Amer. Jour. of Physiol. at the completion 

 of the current, thirty-third, volume of this important publication. 

 It was largely through his initiative that this periodical was founded 

 in 1898; and though the enterprise has received the sanction and 

 official support of the Amer. Physiol. Soc, from the beginning, 

 Dr. Porter not only has assumed the bürden of editorial manage- 

 ment, but also has been financially responsible for it. This wholly 

 disinterested service has been of great importance to physiology in 

 general, and of peculiar helpfulness to the progress of the science 

 in America. The possibilities in the way of publication which have 



