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rut of one limited subject. How wide its interests are to be, how exten- 

 sive its scope, depends upon its contributors. We will endeavour to 

 ensure the Annals reaching all who are interested in the subjects dealt 

 with and we are securing a wide circulation outside our actual members. 



We have already stated that purely systematic work in any group 

 does not come within its scope ; nor does the enumeration of the flora 

 or fauna of defined areas ; both are very amply provided for. We do 

 however invite contributions in all branches of Applied Biology and 

 efforts will be made to ensure that the Annals reach all centres of 

 research in the subjects these papers deal with. 



There is no desire to encroach on the spheres of influence of other 

 journals and among our members are those who contribute to these 

 journals ; we hope that papers will be read at the meetings which will 

 perhaps be published in the Journal of Agricullural Science or elsewhere ; 

 the Association does not claim the right to publish in the Annals all 

 papers read at its meetings and we shall find a wide scope for the 

 Annals without encroaching on the scope of other publications. We 

 do hope that the range of subjects of our meetings and of our members 

 may be so wide as to include workers in every branch of Economic 

 Biology, whether they contribute to the Annals or not, and that the 

 distinction between the scope of the meetings and membership and 

 that of the Annals may be recognised. 



The Association. 



At the last meeting forty new members were elected ; there are, 

 however, at least twice the total of our members in workers in Applied 

 Biology who might reasonably be expected to become members. We 

 hope that a large proportion of the potential members will become 

 actual members : if our membership really embraces a large majority 

 of workers and teachers in the Empire, the Association benefits, the 

 individual member benefits and when the need comes, we may reason- 

 ably hope to be able to represent the interests of the whole body or of 

 the individual in a satisfactory manner ; we do not propose to invite 

 members to strike ; we are not a trade union ; we do not even propose 

 to discuss the rewards given to scientists by the state, a subject that 

 has considerably exercised a few prominent scientific men lately ; but 

 a really representative Association is needed and can exert an infiuence 

 attainable in no other way. 



We hope also that the Association may be a focus for ideas and 



