“ In order to test the matter, to secure reliable data for estimating expenses, and to find out by actual experience what difficulties are to be met and what support can be relied upon, this number has been issued, the expense being shared by a few members who thus act as a voluntary committee of inquiry. If it meets with the approval and support of the members generally, it will be continued as long as support is forthcoming. Already a second issue is practically assured, and copy is plentiful. ”

“ If such a proceeding is imminent, it is none too soon for the Society to take action, looking toward the starting of a new journal. Secondly, it would be obviously to the advantage of the Society to control and publish its official organ, if it can do so creditably. But (without regard to these considerations,) since the Society requires a journal for its operation, and if it has the means and ability to publish for itself, why should we continue to be dependent upon a yearly contract with a privately owned journal, which contract is liable at the beginning of each year to fail of renewal? ”