756 General Notes. 
PHYSIOLOGY 
—Dr. H. P. Bowditch, the President, and Prof. H. N. Martin, 
the Secretary, of the American Physiological Society, are in Europe 
for the summer. During the absence of Prof. Martin the duties of 
the Secretary will be performed by Dr. William H. Welch, of 
Baltimore. 
Biological laboratory. 
—The editor of the Journal of Morphology had occasion not 
long since to defend his action in publishing in his periodical bi 
article of a decidedly physiological character, and his remarXs, 
which we quote from a recent prospectus, of the journal, are 5S 
worthy and suggestive for physiologists generally, as well as for the 
critics for whom they were written :— hat 
“As long as this remains the only journal in our country t ll 
offers to publish zoological papers with adequate illustration, it W 
be both unnecessary and inexpedient to exclude important asa 
because they do not happen to be strictly morphological. iit an 
rigid test has ever been applied in a journal of this kind, and a li 
1 This department is edited by Prof. W. T. Sedgwick, of the sema 
chusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, to whom brief notes, comm 
nications, books for review, etc., should be sent. 
