EDITORIAL NOTE 



At the General Meeting of the Association of Economic 

 Biologists held in the Imperial College of Science on Feb. 18th 

 the Treasurer reported that the cost of publication of Vol. VII 

 of The Annals of Applied Biology had been so great as to make 

 material financial retrenchment a necessity. The Publications 

 Committee therefore put to the meeting the following proposals 

 which were carried unanimously. 



(1) Reduction in size of papers. 



All papers published in the Annals must be condensed to 

 the utmost and for this year no paper will be accepted exceeding 

 8000 words in length. 



(2) Tabular Matter. 



As the printing of tables is a costly process all contributors 

 are requested to reduce tabular matter to the absolute minimum, 

 and if possible to arrange the data in line or graphic form. 



(3) Plates and Text-Figures. 



All plates must be paid for by the contributors and as re- 

 gards the text-figures a limited number will be allowed by the 

 PubHcations Committee. 



(4) Reduction in Number of Pages. 



Fewer papers will be published in Vol. VIII, each part being 

 limited to 50 pages, with discretion to call an individual part a 

 double number. As far as possible each part will contain papers 

 dealing with different aspects of economic biology. 



The above restrictions apply only to papers pubhshed at the 

 expense of the Association and not necessarily to those papers 

 for which "grants in aid" have been received. 



It is hoped that the reductions outHned above will only be 

 operative for the current year since it is anticipated that in 1922 

 it will be possible to revert to improved conditions. 



All contributors are asked to read carefully the instructions 

 on the back cover of the Annals. 



