TY - JOUR AB - VOL. 2 8 256 SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY and Germany with 18.—Raymond J. Gagne, Secre- Smith, would consider the Board a valuable re- tary. source, the motion was defeated 6-0. A discussion followed concerning the now inac- tive Patrons and Endowment Committee. A con- sensus supported retaining the Committee and ap- Editor's Report.—Volume 27 of Systematic Zo- pointing new members. ology contained 19 articles, 38 points of view, 25 Johnston reported that SSZ has not had another book reviews, numerous books received and sundry request for funds from ICSEB-II. He also an- notices, in a total of 495 pages, not counting the nounced that the ASZ meetings in Tampa will fea- index. Within that same period 36 manuscripts were ture at least two SSZ Symposia, one on the signif- rejected or withdrawn. As of December 1, 1979, 5 icance of functional morphology in systematics, articles, and 9 points of view were being typeset; another on ecology and its relationship to system- 41 manuscripts were being reviewed or revised. atics. Average delay from receipt to publication for arti- A motion was made to continue for another year cles was 14 months; for points of view 9.5 months. the SSZ contribution of $500 TI - Editor's Report JF - Systematic Biology DO - 10.1093/sysbio/28.2.256a DA - 1979-06-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/editor-s-report-65rjNKlwxG SP - 256 EP - 256 VL - 28 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -