Report on Securing better Reviews 53 



i The following paragraphs quoted from the text of the report 

 summarize the changes which the editors of the Centralblatt pro- 

 pose to cany into effect : 



" The changes, as will be seen from Dr. Uhlworm's letter, are 

 in conformity with the suggestions made by the committee in its 

 report and will meet with the approval of all American botanists. 

 // is proposed to include in the Centralblatt proper only reviews and 

 the index of literature ; the Beihcfte will contain only original ar- 

 ticles ; the Centralblatt may be subscribed for without also subscribing 

 for the Beihefte ; and, lastly, the price of the Centralblatt is to 

 remain as at present. On these points, therefore, the letter of 

 Dr. Uhlworm is entirely satisfactory. 



" The suggestion that American editors be nominated by a 

 representative body of American botanists seems to be excellent 

 and likely to prove helpful to the Centralblatt by stimulating our 

 botanists to make a determined and combined effort to do all in 

 their power to enable the editors of the Centralblatt, so far, at 

 least, as American botanical literature is concerned, to make their 

 journal indispensable to all botanists. Hereafter it will be a matter 

 of pride to us to show that our interest is not merely passive, but 

 that we are ready to make active individual and collective effort to 

 secure a desirable result. 



"The committee feels that in offering the following recommen- 

 dations to the Society, its work is brought to an end and that it 

 may ask to be discharged from further service. There are other 

 subjects mentioned in Dr. Uhlworm's letter which the Society will 

 probably wish to discuss at their meeting, but they are matters of 

 detail which it seems to us had better be referred, so far as any 

 action is needed, to a special committee. 



"It is recommended : 



" First, that the secretary be directed to write to Dr. Uhlworm 

 and express our hearty approval of the changes proposed and our 

 readiness to cooperate. 



" Secondly, that a committee of three be appointed by the 

 Society with full power to represent the Society in further nego- 

 tiations with the management of the Centralblatt up to such time 

 as the selection of American editors shall have been definitely 



