Whatever one’s career may be, we believe that every scientist, and for that matter every person of education, should be a naturalist first and cultivate a broad general sympathy with nature, and only after that has he a right to become a specialist. No apology need therefore be made for the broad field which THE NATURALIST is to cultivate, and we present it to the public, earnestly soliciting the coöperation of university and college professors, high school teachers, students, and amateurs in the different branches of natural science; and asking that leniency of judgment which such enterprises merit when begun under special difficulties. Finally THE NATURALIST is not intended to be a money-making institution, but it will be improved and enlarged as rapidly as the income from subscriptions and other resources will permit. J. H. S. AN OHIO STATION FOR AMPELOPSIS CORDATA. W. A. KELLERMAN. (Plate 1.) While collecting in Scioto County on the 8th of July, 1900, I was fortunate enough to come across an indigenous specimen of Ampelopsis cordata. [1]The station for the plant is on a hillside one mile east of Portsmouth, Ohio. The character of the environment is indicated in figure 3, Plate 1; the plant in question growing on the bank by the roadside at a point immediately above the bicycle in the central part of the picture. The photograph from which the half tone was made shows only a portion of the high hills that border the Ohio river. The soil is clay and not regarded as very fertile. It is generally the case perhaps that this species grows in “swamps and along river banks,” as stated in the manuals, but the ground here is high and dry. Footnote 1: Since the MS. for this article was passed to the printer, the locality was again visited and several plants, some of large size, were found further up the hillside.