EDITORIAL.



 There is, we believe, amongst members a modicum of feeling on the subject
of the size of the Journal. Some complain that the articles are too few, others
that the advertisements are too many. In the present number we shall have ap-
peased at any rate the latter company, though many no doubt as they catch their
first glimpse of this slender form beneath its wrapper will be smitten with appre-
hension lest their Journal be vanishing altogether.
 The main controlling influence over the Journal is, as in so many other
cases, money. The spate of advertisements in the last few numbers was due to
a well-meant endeavour to raise more of this necessary evil. But as, in the
opinion of many, they appeared rather disproportionately to dwarf the reading
matter and furthermore were found to cost slightly more to produce than the
remainder of the Journal, it has been decided to abolish the major part of them.
 We find ourselves then limited by the present income of the Society to a
total of approximately two hundred pages for our four numbers, and if mem-
bers consider this too mean an allowance they must remember that the publishing
of the Journal is not the Society's only expense, and that their annual subscrip-
tion is not inordinately large.
 As regards our contributions the Committee has decided that in future six
separates shall be issued free of charge to all those whose articles are published.
In the case of those who contribute notes, they will receive six copies of the
notes bound together. Any additional reprints required should be ordered from
the Editor at the time the contribution is sent in.
 In conclusion we would like to make an appeal for more short articles
and notes. There is a reasonably steady supply of good strong meat, and we are
duly grateful to those who expend so much of their time and labour in sup-
plying it. But of lighter fare there is a sad deficiency, and we would stress the
facts that it takes a variety of dishes to make an attractive meal, that there is
succulence for somebody in the smallest of them, and that there are six hundred
critical guests to feed four times in a year.