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A PLAINLY WORDED BIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY. 



Vol. I. No. 1. NOVEMBER, 1893. 



INTEODUCTOEY. 



WE scarce know whether or not apology is due for the appearance 

 of this Journal in the long catalogue of Zoological periodicals. 

 However, we believe a few words of explanation as to the inception 

 of this project will suffice to justify its existence, and to arouse, we 

 trust, sympathy with the undertaking. 



When the idea first arose, it was in the narrow form of the issue 

 of several pages of letter-press, descriptive of certain microscopical 

 preparations of rare and interesting marine animals which were to 

 be issued from the laboratory of the Jersey Biological Station from 

 time to time. Gradually with further consideration the idea ex- 

 panded, and we now ask for your support on the plea that this will 

 be a journal wherein will be recorded general life-history notes, 

 for the most part original, upon the Fauna of British Seas, 

 together with descriptive articles and drawings of noteworthy points 

 in the anatomy and histology of the animals from which the above- 

 mentioned microscopic preparations are made. The greatest care 

 will be taken to insure accuracy in the drawings. Being original 

 these will have great value, not only to the amateur but also to the 

 professed specialist. Not their least recommendation will lie in their 

 being coloured by hand from the living animals. 



Notes on current Zoological literature and progress will appear, 

 while the microscopical portion will contain corresponding notes and 

 hints upon the preparation of objects for the microscope. These 

 subjects are in the present issue unavoidably crowded out, but this 

 will be remedied in the future. We shall, we trust, substantially 

 increase the bulk of the journal in succeeding numbers, but of 

 course this will depend directly upon what amount of support 

 naturalists accord us, 



