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EDITORS’ TABLE. : 
EDITORS: A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE, 
With 1883 the AmERIcAN NATURALIST commences the — 
seventeenth year of its existence. It enters this period with a — 
larger constituency of readers and contributors than it has had 
at any time in the past. It is, however, not only on the numbers — 
but on the quality of its patrons that the management feels dis- 
posed to congratulate itself. It appears to be the most favored 
medium of publication of the naturalists and biologists of the 
United States, when they wish to bring the results of their inves- 
tigations before the general public in a more or less popular form. 
We hope to continue to deserve the favors of our friends, and | 
present them this month with solid evidence of our intentions in — 
this respect. : 
The present number contains thirty pages more than the — 
standard number heretofore published, and it is intended that 
this increased amount shall be permanent. We add two new de- 
partments, those of physiology and psychology, which supply a 
need we have long felt. These give us a total of ten depart- — 
ments, the greater number of which are separately sub-edited by 
able scientific men. It is especially our aim to preserve the well- 
known national character of the NATuRALIsT. Our editors repre- 
sent different regions ; one resides in Boston, one in Providence, | 
three in Philadelphia, two in Washington, one in Ann Arbor, — 
Michigan, and one in Iowa. For our new departments we hope — 
to secure the services of representative men in other sections. 
An especial feature of the NATURALIST is the preference which — 
it gives to American work and workers. Zt is the only magazine — 
in the world to-day which keeps its readers en rapport with the work — 
of Americans in the field of the natural sciences, To do this more — 
perfectly in the future will be the object of its managers and — 
editors. 7 
The zoôlogy of the future is to be more and more the © 
study of living beings, rather than of museum-preserved skin — 
and bones. The best schools in Europe for the zodlogist are the © 
sea-side laboratories at Naples, at Roscoff and Paukson ie m a 
In England and this country museum-t : 
best results and have most advanced biology by deep-sea dredging — 
and marine exploration, for the sea has been the source of all life. _ 
It is refreshing to read of Haeckel’s journey to Ceylon. Like an old- _ 
