In view of all the circumstances I have very reluctantly decided to
postpone the enlargement of the JOURNAL to 1889. The demand for
promised volumes is more urgent than the necessity for enlargement,
and the demand for personal instruction in the new therapeutics also
consumes a great deal of time.
The appeal to readers has elicited a most cordial and cheering
response. No periodical ever had so appreciative a circle of readers,
for no periodical ever occupied the vast, untrodden field of the new
sciences as does the JOURNAL OF MAN,--a solitary pioneer of the new
civilization. I shall continue publishing the cheering words of
readers, which are too numerous to be given in any one number of the
JOURNAL. Many of the responses express the purpose of extending its
circulation by new subscribers, which is the most important act of
friendship for a new journal.