Foreword

Several journals, formally dedicated to zoology, morphology, anatomy, cytology, or biology, more rarely to embryology, are already open to the publication of studies on development. Nevertheless, the need for a new periodical which would be primarily devoted to morphogenesis has been felt in recent years by many embryologists. Professor Woerdeman, in particular, tackled this problem immediately after the last war, but the conditions of the moment did not allow him to realize his fine scheme. In the meantime, our Japanese colleagues took a similar initiative and founded, in 1950, their journal Embryologia. In Europe there is certainly space for an enterprise run on an international scale. Accordingly, all students of morphogenesis will be grateful to the British embryologists for having taken over the project of their Dutch colleague. Professor Woerdeman willingly put the results of his preliminary inquiries at the disposal of the British group, which he soon joined. His collaboration is the more important in that he is the Chairman of the Institut International d'Embryologie, a foundation playing a prominent and constantly increasing role in our scientific movement.