AaG BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 
as articles of diet. The combined output of the various. 
laboratories and stations of this nature is very considerable, 
and their influence upon the progress of biology is properly 
included under the head of present tendencies. 
The organization of laboratories in our great universities 
and their product exercise a wide influence on the progress of 
biology, that science having within twenty-five years come to 
occupy a position of great importance among the subjects of 
general education. 
Establishment and Maintenance of Technical Periodicals. 
—It is manifestly very important to provide means for the 
publication of results and, as needed, to have technical 
periodicals established and properly maintained. Their 
maintenance can not be effected on a purely commercial 
basis, and the result is that some of our best periodicals re- 
quire financial assistance in order to exist at all. The sub- 
sidizing and support of these periodicals aid materially in 
the biological advance. A typical technical periodical is 
Schultze’s famous Archiv fiir Mikroscopische Anatomie, 
founded in 1864 by Schultze and continued to the present 
time. Into its pages go the highest grade of investigations, 
and its continued existence has a salutary influence upon the 
progress of biology. The list of technical periodicals would 
be too long to name, but among others the Morphologisches 
Jahrbuch of Gegenbaur, and Koelliker’s Zeitschrift fiir Wissen- 
schajtliche Zoologie have had wide influence. In England 
the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science is devoted to 
morphological investigations, while physiology is provided 
for in other journals, as it is also in Germany and other 
countries. In the United States the Journal of Morphology, 
edited by C. O. Whitman, passed through seventeen volumes 
and was maintained on the highest plane of scholarship. 
The fine execution of the plates and the high grade of typo- 
graphical work made this journal conspicuous. It repre- 
