XXV1 CHARLES OTIS WHITMAN 
plans, and it was finally arranged that he should come to Mil- 
waukee, take charge of the laboratory, to be known as the Lake 
Laboratory, ‘and also edit with the cooperation of Mr. Allis, a 
journal to be called the Journal of Morphology. The journal 
was to be a model of publications of the kind. 
Whitman may not have been the first to realize the need of 
establishing a journal of zoological and anatomical science in 
America, but he was the first to possess sufficient courage, energy 
and influence to set about realizing the need. He was fortunate 
indeed to find a man of scientific attainments and enthusiasm 
with an ample and liberal purse to support him in this under- 
taking. In the introduction to the Journal Whitman wrote, 
“The mixed character and scattered sources of our publications 
are twin evils that have become intolerable both at home and 
abroad. The establishment of the Journal of Morphology may 
not be the death blow to these evils; but there is hope that it will, 
at least, relieve the more embarrassing difficulties of the present 
situation.”’ 
In its make-up both scientific and typographical, the Journal 
of Morphology was a model of what a research publication should 
be, and it did much to coordinate zoological research in America, 
to give it a worthy setting, and to make it better known abroad. 
Eighteen volumes were published between 1887 and 1903, always 
at considerable financial loss, and its publication was then sus- 
pended for a while in spite of Whitman’s efforts to secure the 
needed support. The American Journal of Anatomy and The 
Journal of Experimental Zoology, begun in the period of suspen- 
sion of the Journal of Morphology, did not, however, suffice 
for the growing needs of zoological and anatomical science, and 
the Journal of Morphology was taken up again by The Wistar 
Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia, in 1908, and 
its publication has continued ever since. As Professor Mall 
says, ‘‘The Journal of Morphology served as a model for many of 
our scientific journals, both biological and medical, which have 
come into existence during the past twenty-one years. The im- 
portance of sound scientific journals to anatomical and zoological 
science is now clear to all, and both anatomists and zoologists 
