EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 



OF 



A DEPARTMENT OF NOTES 



In order to provide for the publication of brief 

 reports of valuable observations within the field of 

 behavior, the Editors of the Journal have decided to 

 establish a Department of Notes. 



It is not intended that news items shall be presented 

 in this Department of the Journal. 



Any one who has facts of behavior to report, 

 however fragmentary, incomplete, or unsystematic the 

 observations, is invited to submit a brief description of 

 the same. 



The reasons for the establishment of this Depart- 

 ment are two. First, because many observations of 

 behavior, casually made, which would be of considerable 

 value to students of the subject, now remain unrecorded 

 by reason of the lack of a suitable place of publication. 

 Second, because such a Department promises to add 

 greatly to the interest and value ot the Journal to those 

 readers who are not professionally occupied with the 

 problems of behavior. 



The Editors wish, in this connection, to emphasize, 

 the desirability of having the "experimental" studies in 



