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EDITORIAL. 
EDITORS, E. D. COPE AND J. S. KINGSLEY. 
WE congratulate our readers and other countrymen that the 
United States Government has at length partially removed 
a tax on intelligence which has been our opprobrium for many 
years. We refer to the duty imposed on books imported or 
received in exchange by private students and investigators from 
foreign countries. A committee to obtain this reduction was 
appointed by the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science at its New York meeting, which now consists of Profs. 
> R. Eastman, Washington, S. A. Forbes, Champaign, Ill., and 
E. D. Cope, Philadelphia (chairman). This committee has not 
been inactive, and has extended its labors through several admin- 
istrations. During the preparation of the Morrison tariff bill 
endeavors were used, which were not successful, to have scientific 
