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rin may be changed, Vsed as above, 

 or modified as indicated, I think it 

 also a trustworthy medium for mount- 

 ing infusoria and the softer animal 

 tissues. 



EDITORIAL. 



Contributions, exchanges, and letters should be 

 addressed to the Editor, P. O. P>ox 630, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



StJBsckiPTiON-PRiCE, $i.oo per year, in advance. 

 All Subscriptions begin with the January number. 



Aftek April ist, 1SS4, the sub^cription price will 

 be $1.50 



To Subscribers. — The following 

 notice has been sent to us for publica- 

 tion, by Messrs. Cassino & Co, ; — 

 " 'J'he publishers regret that their ad- 

 vertisement-circular in the last issue 

 should have caused any one to sup- 

 pose the Journal would be discon- 

 tinued after this year. It was not the 

 intention to mislead any one, but to 

 notify subsciibers that we should no 

 longer be the publishers," 



S. E. Cassino & Co. 



Change of Management. — One 

 year ago the Editor believed that if 

 the Journal were placed in the hands 

 of a publisher of bool^s and peri- 

 odicals, it would be a benefit to sub- 

 scribers and advertisers as well as to 

 himself. He expected that publishers 

 would not only be able to give it a far 

 wider circulation by the systematic 

 distribution of specimen copies, but 

 that the cost of publishing would be 

 materially reduced, and the profits 

 coirespondingly increased, while at 

 the same time the P^ditor would be re- 

 lieved of many details of a purely busi- 

 ness character. These expectations 

 have not been fully realized; and the 

 Editor is very well pleased that he can 

 once more resume his former position 

 as publisher. This change of man- 



agement has already been announced 

 by a circular sent to subscribers, 

 stating that the Journal would here- 

 after be published in Washington, 

 D. C. ; where the editor will hereafter 

 reside, having taken a position in the 

 National Museum. 



A series of articles for publication 

 next year, which will add greatly to 

 the interest and practical value o! the 

 Journal is already in course of prep- 

 aration. The first article will appear 

 next month when the series will be 

 more fully announced, and the titles 

 given so far as known. 



The January number will be issued 

 at the usual time, and will be sent to 

 all present subscribers. Future num- 

 bers will only be sent to paid subsciib- 

 ers, except as specimen-copies. The 

 Journal being now well established, 

 it is considered time to adopt this rule. 

 The time and trouble required to keep 

 numerous running accounts of $i.oo 

 each, rendering bills from time to time, 

 and the uncertainty of collecting some 

 of them at all, are sufificient reason for 

 this course. When the Journal only 

 existed in the expectations and inten- 

 tions of its promotor, it was necessary 

 to give credit, and a hundred or moie 

 persons took advantage of it for three 

 years, — and some for a longer period 

 not yet brought to a close. It was 

 only a dollar each to them but $100.00 

 to us. We are no longer in that 

 position. The Journal is established. 

 It pays its way, and a trifle more. 

 Those who desire to receive it are 

 requested to favor us with the sub- 

 scription-price in advance, precisely 

 as they would for other periodicals. 



At no time in the history of the 

 Journal have there been such indica- 

 tions of wide-spread interest in micro- 

 scopical work, as there are now, if we 

 may judge from the activity of which 

 we hear from various directions, and 

 from the quantity of matter already in 

 hand awaiting publication. 



Subscribers will observe that the 

 subscription-price remains the same up 

 to April ist, after which it will be in- 

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