Editorial Notes and Comments 
The Editor does not suppress some exultation at the breadth of the 
coverage of one vertebrate group that is here achieved. But he is happier 
still that broad advance has been and continues to be one in which the 
separate assaults on particular problems turn out in fact to be mutually 
reinforcing. 
It is to aid this mutuality of effort that this Newsletter has been 
invented. Already in 1972 George Gorman thought that the operation had 
become large enough that it was threatening to come apart, and it was for 
this reason that he invented the First Anolis Symposium, That went well 
enough to encourage further efforts at cross communication. Hence the 
demi-journal that is before you. 
It is to be informational, It will sometimes record work that, for 
one reason or another, will not for a long time, or perhaps never, be 
printed in the regular journals. It will sometimes be a vehicle for ideas 
that may be shot down or abandoned. But above all, the Newsletter, in this 
issue and any subsequent ones, has the function of informing Anolis workers 
of what their colleagues are doing and of doing so in one format and one place. 
Two in-house communications preceded the present Newsletter. The 
first was a "Progress Report," a very informal personal statement of those 
Anolis operations plus my own comments and expressed prejudices. The 
second was a much more formal, much longer report to NSF on two years of 
grant operation, There was too much information in it not to circulate it 
among the local group. This NSF report, because of its length and formality, 
came to be called the First Anolis Newsletter, and I thereafter began 
promising a Second Anolis Newsletter and promising it rather widely after 
the Gorman-organized First Anolis Symposium in 1972. Much delayed the 
promised SAN, but above all the preparation of a new grant proposal which, 
in its time, had to serve, for lack of energy - and time (I immediately 
after preparation of the proposal went off to Brasil) - as a kind of News- 
letter. 
The stimulus to the present semi-publication came from the required 
report to NSF of research under the first year of the new grant. The 
report - always, as a matter of my psychology, more elaborate than is quite 
necessary - dealt only with our grant-supported research but it is the base 
of the expanded summary of Anolis research that is before you. 
SAN is still a report by the local group and those who work at least 
part of the time with us. We are partially aware of other work but we are 
not in close enough touch to report it. It is not our intention at this 
time to cite or abstract already published work. 
