EDITORIAL STATEMENT. 
We note with pleasure the growing interest in the work represent- 
ed by this publication and the greatly increased facilities now afforded 
for advanced work. The present volume, although the work of more 
hands than that of last year, does not adequately indicate the scope which 
the publication is expected to cover, because a disproportionate amount 
of space has been given to geological discussions, the results of which it 
is hoped to immediately employ. Several articles again crowded out, 
as well as the promised instalments of continued papers, will appear 
in the next issue The department of Chemistry and Physics may be 
expected to contribute its full quota to the interest of the publication. 
We need hardly remind the professional naturalist that other con- 
siderations are subordinated to the educational, and the papers are 
strictly, as they profess to be, outgrowths of class work and laboratory 
exercise. If, notwithstanding, results of a certain degree of interest 
as contributions to science develop, it will not be regretted by us. It 
ought not to be necessary to say that the material is in each case origi- 
nal, and collected, as well as elaborated, by those to whom it is accred- 
ited. 
The uniform kindness of the learned societies from which ex- 
changes have been solicited, calls for grateful recognition on our part 
A full acknowledgement will be found in the next issue. 
To kind friends who have contributed apparatus and specimens 
we can only speak general indebtedness. A freezing microtome man- 
ufactured and donated by Dr. Jacobs, of Newark, should be appre- 
ciatively mentioned, as also a valuable collection of eggs presented 
by Mr. G. D. Pearce. Finally, it should be said that the means for 
sustaining this publication have been secured solely by voluntary con- 
