Editorial. 
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doubt that such a journal would be warmly appreciated in these 
quarters. Our columns will always be open to enquiries for special 
information or statements of difficulties on topics theoretical or 
practical from readers who may be in want of help, and we have no 
doubt a ready response will be forthcoming from others who are in 
a position to be of use. 
Such are the main objects we have in view in founding the Nlw 
Phytologist, and we venture to believe that with the cordial 
co-operation of our readers, we ought to succeed in carrying them 
out. It will, however, be clear from what has been said, that 
without this co-operation there is no prospect of success. Our 
pages must be largely filled with correspondence, notes and 
short reviews, and without a liberal supply of material from our 
readers we cannot hope to carry on a magazine conducted on these 
lines. But we trust that if the objects we have in view 
seem fairly in the way of realization, there will be no lack of such 
supplies. The conditions applying to contributions intended for 
publication will be found fully stated on the inside of the back 
cover. 
We feel that some apology is due to our subscribers for the 
comparatively small number of pages we are at present able to 
produce. Prudence dictated a modest beginning, but we hope 
that the number of our subscribers and the amount of available 
matter will soon justify an enlargement. 
The New Phytologist is not intended to be the rival of any 
existing periodical. To some extent of course our work must 
overlap that of others, but we believe that in the main w’e shall fill 
a place which is at present vacant. 
