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Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 8. 
interest in Mycology so greatly widened and its usefulness so 
generally appreciated, that the continuation of the Journal —de¬ 
voted to this broad and important branch of Science — will be 
welcomed by a very large constituency. 
The State Agricultural Experiment Stations beginning the 
publication of their work four years after the Journal of Mycol¬ 
ogy was established turned the attention of a host of students 
and workers to economic mycology, and many of them have made 
important contributions as well to the morphological and physio¬ 
logical in addition to the economic aspects of the subject. The 
instruction to students and opportunities for work in Mycology 
at Universities, Colleges and Stations have been greatly extended 
in recent years. No other branch of botany has enjoyed such 
popularity or received more attention than Mycology. 
It is hoped that such encouragement and assistance will be 
received in the revival and continuation of this Journal, both 
in the way of subscriptions and contributions for publications, 
that an enlarged and valuable publication will be possible in the 
very near future. The editor is by no means so sanguine as to 
expect that the expense will be fully met by such income, yet he 
does hope to make a Journal that will perhaps be worth more than 
the amount charged subscribers, and on that basis most earnestly 
solicits the aid of all working mycologists and of all the profes¬ 
sional and amateur botanists of our country. 
In no way will this Journal encroach on the mycological 
province of the State Experiment Stations, devoted as they neces¬ 
sarily and properly are, exclusively to the economic phases of the 
subject; on the other hand, it proposes to be an aid to such work 
by supplementing it in a very essential manner. To discourage and 
retard the investigations in the Morphology, Physiology, Ecology 
and Taxonomy of Fungi — the work that will be made prominent 
in the Journal of Mycology — would be on the part of Economic 
Mycologists seriously to interfere with the scope and value of their 
investigations. All branches of botany no less than all branches 
of science, must proceed simultaneously and harmoniously; the 
divorcement of any one will be to its detriment and a detriment 
to the whole. The co-operation of the botanists of the Stations 
is therefore solicited, their more technical and purely scientific 
publications, descriptions of new species, investigations into the 
life histories of Fungi, observations and notes on Ecology' - and 
Distribution, and other articles not adapted to popular Bulletins, 
are respectfully solicited. The mycologists of the Stations have 
broad opportunities for advancing the science, yet the intended 
practical character of the publications forbid much technical mat¬ 
ter that is very essential to the promotion of this science. 
The Journal proposes to be an index, and it is hoped that 
the aid of working mycologists will also make it an exponent 
of North American Mycology. Those contributing descriptions 
