Miscellaneous Notes. 
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countries spread over half the world are sufficiently obvious ; but 
still there can he little doubt that more central direction and organis¬ 
ation is really wanted. Misprints are rather distressingly common, 
and it is clear that very many simply result from ignorance of the 
various languages on the part of the compositors. Probably this 
could be remedied by employing a printer’s reader who had a working 
knowledge of the three languages in which the reviews are 
written. 
The continuous paging of the lists of new literature, so that the 
whole of this matter comes together when the volume is bound, 
will be very useful in facilitating reference to back-volumes. The 
same principle might well be adopted within the different sub¬ 
divisions under which the “ Referate ” are arranged in each number, 
so that, for instance, all the notices of papers on Fungi throughout 
the volume would be continuously paged and come together in the 
bound volume. 
Meanwhile the “ Association Internationale ” and particularly 
the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Lotsy, must be congratulated on having 
established and begun to carry on the “ Centralblatt ” on an 
international basis. The result has already been that numbers of 
papers are now noticed which were necessarily neglected under the 
old regime, and the publication is certainly more valuable than 
ever. - 
The old “ Beihefte,” now entirely devoted to original papers, 
under the editorship of Drs. Uhlworm and Kohl, is published 
by Fischer, of Jena, and is very well got up, with most admirable 
plates. Papers are published in the “ Beihefte ” in English or French, 
as well as in German, so that this periodical also partakes of the 
international character. It may be recommended to English authors 
who find the home journals inconveniently crowded. One sensible 
feature of the “ Beihefte ” is their appearance in “ zwanglosen 
Hefte,” i.e. at no fixed times, but as soon as enough papers are 
ready to make up a suitable size. In this way rapid publication is 
assured if there is a good supply of papers, the only drawback being 
that subscribers may find the annual cost of the periodical mount 
up rather alarmingly. What is really wanted is a scheme by which 
subscribers to a periodical entirely composed of original papers 
could obtain only what they wanted and would not have to pay for 
what they did not want. There are, of course, obvious and serious 
financial difficulties involved, but it is probable that these could be 
surmounted after a little consideration of the problem. 
