584 DHE JOURNAL FOLNGLOL OGY. 
may safely be assumed that out of the conjoined wisdom of so 
many experienced explorers the best ideas in polar exploration 
will find expression in the expedition or expeditions that it is 
hoped will spring out of the agitation. Dr. Cooke is laboring 
industriously in the endeavor to organize his proposed Antarctic 
expedition, but with what success we are not informed. 
Obviously he is hampered somewhat by the moral effects of the 
ill success of the Miranda expedition of last season. Altogether 
there is much ground of hope for important returns at the close 
of the season and for new enterprises in the early future. 
TIEae 
foley 
The size of this number has been reduced and its issuance 
delayed by an oversight and by the failure to receive in time the 
proof of an article whose author is doubtless in the field. As 
the last numbers have considerably exceeded the standard size 
and succeeding numbers are likely to do so also, our readers 
will doubtless generously overlook the shortage of this number. 
Ene: 
