EDITORIALS. 
A New Biological Journal. — We have the pleasure of record- 
ing the advent of another excellent periodical from France devoted 
to biology. Z’ Intérmediaire des Biologistes, organe international de 
Zoologie, Botanigue, Physiologie, et Psychologie, the first number of 
which appeared November 5, is edited by Prof. Alfred Binet, with 
the assistance of Dr. Victor Henri and an editorial committee 
of thirty-four, including Profs. J. M. Baldwin and C. S. Minot 
from America. The journal, which is to appear semi-monthly, 
cherishes the high ideal of becoming the medium of communi- 
cation between the members of the great family of biologists 
scattered in all countries. The immediate practical aim is that of 
furnishing to biologists information of interest to them as investiga- 
tors. This information will be afforded, first, by a department of 
“Questions and Answers,” and, secondly, by summaries of the bio- 
logical periodicals. In addition, a brief space may be devoted to 
original articles and preliminaries. The number now before us 
contains “An Appeal to Physiologists,” by E. J. Marey, for the 
establishment of a commission to make the types of instruments 
used in physiological work uniform; forty-six queries, largely in 
psychology, nearly all instructive by their suggestiveness ; biblio- 
graphic lists of contents of periodicals, eight pages ; three new pieces 
of physiological apparatus, with illustrations. Of the importance of 
such a journal as this we have no doubt. In how far it will serve 
the working naturalist who wants certain information is yet to 
appear. Generally he wants it quickly; but not infrequently the 
queries will relate to a life work, when he can afford to wait, as Dar- 
win did, months and even years for the answers to his questionings. 
But whatever this journal does towards uniting biologists, towards 
establishing a habit of mutual dependence and aid, will not fail to 
advance the science. 
Scientific Names. — There has recently come into our hands a 
small paper of no little value to systematic naturalists. We refer to 
Professor Walter Miller’s “Scientific Names of Latin and Greek 
Derivation,” published in the Proceedings of the California Academy 
of Science and reprinted by the Stanford University. The paper 
should be a vade mecum, studied and restudied by every person who 
is in danger of describing new genera and new species. Were its 
