Tue MIcROSCOPE. 279 
SALUTATORY. 
OR the second time in its ten years of life THE Microscope 
suffers an editorial change. Founded by Dr. and Mrs. C. 
H. Stowell, of Ann Arbor, it from the first attracted considerable 
attention as a bright and always welcome journal. For about 
six years Dr. Stowell conducted it with skill, making it more 
and more influential and helpful. When it became necessary 
for him to relinquish the editorial care, the journal at 
once advanced to a still higher plane under the leadership of 
Dr. W. P. Manton and his accomplished associates. And now, 
for reasons already explained by the retiring editors, THe Mic- 
ROSCOPE again changes hands, but whether for the better the 
future alone can tell. It will not suffer a sea change into some- 
thing new and rare, for the present editor wili need to work to 
keep the journal where Dr. Manton leaves it. | 
The editorship is assumed after a good deal of hesitation and 
reluctance. For several years the writer has contributed to the 
journal’s pages, whether acceptably or not to the journal’s 
readers there is no means of knowing. But he is presumably 
not an entire stranger to the reader, yet the latter need not be 
frightened, for the editor seldom contributes to the pages of his 
own paper. A magazine could discover no more effectual 
method of disposing of a persistent contributor than by making 
him the editor. If he should be so utterly uncontrolable as to 
insist upon printing an occasional effusion and labelling it “ edi- 
torial,” nobody need read it. There every one has a defence, 
whereas an article in the body of the journal forces itself upon 
the reader and demands some sort of attention. Conse, 
quently, although the writer has been quite frequently a contrib- 
utor to THE Microscopk, he hopes to be forgiven, since he may 
not do so any more. With him it will be (perhaps) hail, and 
farewell. 
The magazine will be just what its friends make it, and the 
editor will, with their aid, endeavor to hold it in the position to 
which it has attained under his predecessors’ care. : 
