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been opened to the research workers in American laboratories 

 through the Inauguration in this country of Journals devoted to the 

 pre-medical sciences, can be fully appreciated only by those who 

 Httle more than a decade ago were forced either to send their con- 

 tributions to pubHcations abroad, often to be printed in a foreign 

 language, or to accept the meager opportunities offered by a few of 

 our own medical Journals. Even more important, however, is the 

 influenae that the Amer. Jour. of Physiol. has exerted in all parts 

 of the educated world in enhancing the prestige of American phys- 

 iologists and their work. Its high Standard of excellence in form 

 and content forced attention to the research work being accomplished 

 here and speedily placed the rapidly developing American labora- 

 tories in the front rank. The enumeration of the prominent con- 

 tributions which have appeared in the pages of the Journal since 

 1898 would unfold the story of many of the most notable advances 

 that physiology has experienced within this period. Few who have 

 not experienced the demands which unceasing editorial duties make 

 on the energy and initiative, the ingenuity and forbearance, of an 

 otherwise engaged individual, can adequately appreciate the splen- 

 did ability with which Dr. Porter so generously and willingly under- 

 took and carried this task to the point at which the work cannot 

 easily fail to be sustained for the future. He richly deserves the 

 thanks of those who have the best interests of the thriving science of 

 physiology at heart. We are glad to learn that the Amer. Physiol. 

 Soc. will assume the ownership and editorial control, and continue the 

 publication. Until a permanent arrangement is made, the editorial 

 work will be in charge of an editorial committee, of which Prof. W. 

 H. Howell of Baltimore is chairman. {Editorial: Jour. Amer. Med. 

 Assoc, 1914, Ixii, p. 939.) 



Jour. Biol. Chem. The f ollowing " announcement " appears on 

 page I of the June issue of the Jour. Biol. Chem. (Vol. xviii, no. i) : 



The Jour. of Biol. Chem. enters upon its eighteenth volume with 

 the present issue and the directors of the Journal take this occasion 

 to make the f ollowing announcement : Up to the present time the 

 work of both editing and Publishing the Journal has been done by 

 the board of editors appointed by the directors. The rapid growth 

 of the Journal has been associated with a corresponding large in- 



