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that the health of the Junior Editor of this journal has been 
seriously impaired. This has: necessitated an unusual amount 
of labor and care on the part of the Senior Editor. There 
seems at present no bright solution of the problem. For this 
reason only we entertained the proposition of some of our friends. — 
This finally results in the transfer of our journal to four most. 
competent microscopists, experienced equally in manipulative 
skill and editorial work. We transfer to them a journal that. 
has more than paid its expenses each year of its existence, and 
that, without doubt, paid more net. profits last year than the 
whole profits of all the microscopical journals ever published : 
in this country from their first appearance to the present time. 
Our journal has made us many friends, and in this alone has re- 
paid us a hundred fold for all our anxieties and labors. To all 
our contributors, who have made the pages of our journal bright 
and instructive; to all our subscribers, who have aided us both 
by their payments and their promptness ; and to all our adver- 
tisers, whose interests, we trust, have been furthered by our ef- 
forts, to all these, we give our hearty thanks and our last good 
wishes. 
CHARLES H. STOWELL. 
Louisa REED STOWELL. 
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INTRODUCTORY. 
It is with great pleasure that we are able to introduce to 
our friends four such competent workers as are represented on 
the new editorial staff of this journal. Dr. W. P. Manton, M. 
D., F. R. M.S.,is a graduate of Harvard and an experienced 
editor. For over three years he studied in the principal cities’ 
abroad, and for a long time was a special pupil of the renowned 
microscopist Prof. Butschli, of Heidelberg. He is well known. 
to thousands of readers through his admirable “ Practical Helps 
