Scientific 
[nvestigators. 
One of the greatest needs of American science 
at the present time is a convenient medium in which 
: brief preliminary notices of the results of investigation 
! can be published. A considerable length of time of 
_ necessity elapses between the conclusion of any series _ 
of observations and their appearance in print, and tc 
‘is of great advantage to the observer, and still more to _ 
is fellow-workers, to have the results made known as 
oon as possible, thus insuring priority of discovery = 
G one, and allowing the others to keep more perfectly _ 
with what is going on in the scientific e 
o as possible. — This the NATURAL 
to. os and invites the a of all i 
