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For the rhinoplastic surgeon the most significant news of the moment concerns the appearance of the first number (July 1946) of the magazine Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Although the magazine is published by the American Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Inc., suitable papers and reports of original work will be accepted from all fields of plastic surgery, and the contributors are not to be limited by membership in the society. This adds to the scope and the value of the publication, as will the abstracts of the current literature on the subject. The stimulation of contributions of new and original theories and methods will also add to the worth of the magazine. It will be recalled that when the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was dedicated a visitor of prominence remarked to the director that if he did not allow his assistants to do work that at the time