418 A CENTURY OF SCIENCE 



With the awakened interest in comparative anatomy 

 and embryology came the need for an American journal 

 which should supply a means of publication for the 

 reports of researches accomplished by the increasing 

 number of workers in these fields. This need was fully 

 met by the establishment of the Journal of Morphology 

 in 1887. This publication, now in its 30th volume, has 

 equalled the best European journals in the character of 

 its papers. A few years later (1891) came the Journal 

 of Comparative Neurology for the publication of investi- 

 gations relating to the morphology and physiology of the 

 nervous system and to nervous and allied phenomena in 

 all groups of organisms. Twenty-eight volumes of this 

 journal have been completed. The Zoological Bulletin 

 was started under the auspices of the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory in 1897 for the publication of papers of a less 

 extensive nature and which could be more promptly 

 issued than those in the Journal of Morphology where 

 elaborate plates were required. After two years the 

 scope of the Bulletin was enlarged to include botanical 

 and physiological subjects. The name was correspond- 

 ingly changed to the Biological Bulletin. Of this import- 

 ant periodical 33 volumes have been issued. 



For the publication of papers on human and compara- 

 tive anatomy and embryology, the American Journal of 

 Anatomy was established in 1901, and is now in its 

 twenty-third volume. 



Meanwhile the trend of zoological interest was toward 

 topics connected with the ultimate nature of biological 

 phenomena. The meaning of these phenomena could be 

 determined only by the experimental method. Researches 

 in this field became more prominent and the adequate 

 publication of the numerous papers required the estab- 

 lishment of a new journal in 1904. This was named the 

 Journal of Experimental Zoology. It immediately took 

 its place in the front rank of American zoological period- 

 icals. Twenty-four volumes have been published. 



In spite of the constantly increasing number of 

 journals, the science grew faster than the means of pub- 

 lication. So crowded did the American journals become 

 that long delays often resulted before the results of an 

 investigation could be issued. This condition was met in 



