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The Society might take over the financial responsibihty of such 

 Journals as the Council of the Society deemed best; beginning, for 

 example, with one or two with the largest circulation, adding the 

 Biological Abstract Journal, and Publishing the three for $io or 

 $12 a year, and distributing them to all its members. Then, as the 

 Journals wished and the Council and the Society decided, one after 

 another of the other Journals could be added until the whole list was 

 included. This scheme would be feasible if we had a thousand 

 members at the start. In any such arrangement the editorial boards 

 of the Journals would retain entire charge of the editorial manage- 

 ment, so that the independence of the Journals would be secured. 



(3) If such an arrangement could be made with the Wistar In- 

 stitute of Anatomy, it might become the Publishing house for the 

 Society, taking over the financial responsibihty for additional Jour- 

 nals, as the Institute has already done for several, and thus greatly 

 extending the usefulness of the Institute. In this way the Society 

 would aid the Institute in getting the Journals on a firm basis by 

 uniting in its support the biological interests of the country. At 

 the Start this plan might involve an increased outlay by the Wistar 

 Institute, but, in the long run, the dues of the Society should suffice 

 to maintain the Journals. This plan would aid the Wistar Institute 

 in doing the work it has undertaken. 



(4) Provision could be made for the starting of new Journals 



at any time, or for the support by the Society of those established by 



Outsiders. 



University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, Illinois. 



