EDITORIAL. 
A CORRESPONDENT takes the GazeTTE to task in this wise: “It ap- 
pears to me that the GazETTE contains too many articles that ought 
not to appear in print. . . . I would especially call attention to 
Mr. ——’s paper upon ——, and Mr hese articles 
are too defective for the Gazerre and do not add anything to our 
knowledge, but contain numerous poor statements of well-known 
facts.” 
We do not undertake to defend these ‘papers, whose defects were 
fully recognized by the editors; or to set forth the reasons, to us suf- 
ficient, for accepting them for publication. We content ourselves 
with saying that we conceive it to be the duty of the GazETTE to re- 
flect as correctly as possible in papers published the state of inyesti- 
gation in the United States, and to urge (as we have repeatedly done 
and now do again) the necessity of increasing care in the preparation . 
of papers offered for publication. It must be remembered that such 
criticisms as the above weigh chiefly against the authors. They do 
themselves discredit by the publication of any paper for which there 
has not been a careful consultation of all previous investigations along 
the same line, and at the same time tend to bring into disrepute, 
prima facie, all American investigators. 
THE STATE OF THINGS described so forcibly in Professor Koehne's 
reply to criticisms upon the Botanischer Jahresbericht is highly dis- 
creditable to botanists. We are glad to have the facts brought © 
notice, however, for we hope that a knowledge of them will work the 
desired reformation. It is really marvelous that under such difficul- 
ties the Jahresbericht is published as promptly and is as complet 
is. We think the editor and his staff deserve the warmest thanks 
highest commendation of the hundreds who have profited by their 
botanists 
Koehne’s letter further failure will be inexcusable. Reader, i sag 
anything botanical for scientific journals, sit down quickly and py 
Professor Koehne’s address in your mailing list. We are glad by : 
that the Boranica, Gazetre has long been one of the twenty jour 
nals which go regularly to the Sahresbericht. 
