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We are pleased to be able to announce that Dr. Charles S. Minot, Harvard 

 Medical School, has in preparation for early publication in the Journal a series 

 of papers on the History of the Microtome. The microtome has come into use 

 within the period of his recollection, and its development has been largely con- 

 tributed to by him ; in fact, there are probably no types more popular to-day than 

 the Minot Automatic Rotary and the Minot Automatic Precision Microtomes. 

 It seems eminently fitting that the history of this most important adjunct to 

 modern biological research should be preserved in permanent form. 



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Another series to which our readers will no doubt look forward with keen in- 

 terest, will be contributed by Professor F. M. McFarland of Leland Stanford Jr. 

 University. The members of the faculty of Leland Stanford Jr. University are 

 granted leave of absence every seventh year, and this year Professor McFarland 

 will spend among the marine biological stations of the old world. Photographs 

 and descriptions of the laboratories will be made, and the whole will be published 

 in the Journal as a series. 



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In accordance with the broadened scope of the Journal, a series of 

 " Methods in Plant Physiology " will be begun shortly by Mr. Howard S. Reed, 

 University of Michigan. The series will deal with practical methods that can 

 be put into actual use for demonstration and experimental purposes. 



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In order to see whether our judgment that an exchange department in the 

 Journal is unnecessary and disadvantageous, a judgment that has been appealed 

 from a good many times, we submitted the matter to our contributors for decision, 

 and the result has been an overwhelming condemnation of such a department. 

 We wish to add any feature which may be of use to our readers, but we feel 

 sure this would not be. 



