national rather than local in character will be seen by a glance at 
the list, on the opposite page, of associate editors. This list 
contains representatives of many of the principal seats of learning 
from Maine to California. 
In the selection of material the editors set for themselves the 
difficult task of choosing that which shall be strictly scientific and 
at the same time so treated as to be intelligible and instructive to 
the general scientific reader. With this end in view, in the new 
series, they avoid the publication of mere descriptions of new 
species, lists of animals and plants, and other similar matter, unless 
such descriptions or lists for some special reason are of general 
interest and do not appeal to the specialist alone. 
The editors feel that a movement is well under way toward a 
closer union of the natural sciences, based, not upon superficial 
observations and poorly grounded speculations, but upon a deeper 
insight into the real facts; and they invite contributions to their 
columns. Not merely articles dealing in broad generalities, but 
accounts of the most minute investigations will be welcomed, if 
only the results are shown to have some significance from the 
editors’ point of view. 
The Natura List is issued monthly. Each number contains about 
eighty pages, consisting of leading original articles, accounts and 
discussions of new discoverjes, reports of scientific expeditions, bio- 
graphical notices of distinguished naturalists, critical summaries of 
recent progress, editorial comments on scientific questions of the 
day, critical reviews of recent literature in various departments, and 
a final department of scientific notes and news and personal notices. 
The journal is freely illustrated. 
