I9I2] Editoriais 579 



We are too biisy and too agitated to undertake, now and here, 

 to answer the important and disconcerting questions that relate to 

 US — may the gods be merciful to Moore and the other suspects — 

 but in a succeeding volume (subscribe, brother, subscribe) we may 

 make the effort, provided, of coiirse, that we can prevent foreclosure 

 of the mortgage on our equipment and secure the assistance of a 

 lawyer clever enough to construct a satisfying defense for us in 

 this desperate emergency. The bell! Ah! A telegram! We 

 look, perceive and smile. There it is, 11. m. c, take it, read it — 

 and catch the idea, if your head is pemieable to thoughts that do 

 not vision seif: 



" Science is essentially mutualistic and the success of one Organi- 

 zation is the gratification of all — the triumphs and discoveries of one 

 are shared with the many and the feeling of pride in the progress of 

 the one may he shared ivithont loss hy sister organisations. As the 

 discovery made in one branch of science may be the necessary founda- 

 tion for the Solution of some problem in another, so the contribution 

 f rom one society may be the stepping stone to advancement in another. 

 It is all hail then, greetings and felicitation — and Godspeed in the 

 accomplishments of your future destiny." Osborn. 



Students of fungous diseases of trees often desire to know what 

 chemical changes are induced in wood by the activity of wood- 

 destroying fungi. The literature dealing with this subject is un- 

 Material for the satisfactory and scattering. The mere presence 

 study of of a fungus on some trees causes staining and 



fungous diseases technical changes in the sound wood. Of the 

 resultant chemical alterations we know nothing. The changes in 

 strength are easy to measure. I shall be happy to facilitate work in 

 these directions by furnishing material to any one desirous of study- 

 ing Problems connected with fungous diseases of trees. — Homer D. 

 Hause, Biltmore Forest School, Biltmore, N. C. 



"Chnical Observation is the final court of appeal! This final 



court of appeal has been handing down its infallible decisions for 



thousands of years. They are received without question, until 



Significant medical some obscure pathologist in the privacy of his 



Views laboratory examines them under the microscope, 



