4 Programme 



These considerations have appeared to justify V.e establish- 

 ment of the International Journal of Anatomy and Histology. 

 Witli respect to the mode in which it will be condueted, 

 we may State that whilst excluding all polemics of a purely 

 personal nature, we shall endeavour to afford an opportunity 

 for discussions of an international character. We do not in- 

 tend to confine ourselves rigidly to the programme given on 

 the title page, that is to say to normal, descriptive and topo- 

 graphical Anatomy and Histology. We shall not hesitate to 

 admit anything that possesses general interest whether the sub- 

 ject be zoological, embryological, physiological or pathological, 

 provided that the methods of research employed are anatomical. 



The beginner, as well as the author of long Standing, is 

 apt to get impatient if he is kept waiting for years for the 

 appearance of an essay. We cannot hope entirely to do 

 away with these delays, which are partly occasioned by 

 accidental circumstances, but they will be minimized as much 

 as lies in our power. Every author is naturally interested in 

 his own essay, and anxious to see the publication of it begun, 

 as by this priority is practically etablished. 



We count chiefly on Communications which are accompanied 

 by illustrations and which are in consequence raised above the 

 rank of mere preliminary notices, but at the same time are 

 less voluminous than those published in the larger scientific 

 archives, which may be termed the heavy artillery of science. 



So far as our space permits the editorial staff hopes to be 

 able to provide critical notices of the latest Communications 

 of importance in their respective countries. 



