22 NATIONAL TRENDS IN BIOLOGY 



but merely attempt to state the case and so produce a 

 living document at least of interest to the younger work- 

 ers in the field. 



Just fifteen years ago, C. S. Minot, of Harvard, then 

 Exchange Professor at the Universities of Berlin and 

 Jena, delivered six lectures on "Modern Problems of Biol- 

 ogy" at the latter institution.^ 



The six problems discussed were : 



1. The New Cell Doctrine 



2. Cytomorphosis 



3. The Doctrine of Immortality 



4. The Development of Death 



5. The Determination of Sex 



6. The Notion of Life 



Today, at another foreign university, another North 

 American professor reads a paper on a similar theme — "A 

 Survey of National Trends in Biology" — dealing with 

 the problems of biology as they appear to the biologist of 

 all nations fifteen years later. 



It is undoubtedly true that science should know no 

 political boundaries, and that as biology is a science, it 

 should be international. However, one need be in corre- 

 spondence with but a very few biologists to find that while 

 biology may be international, biologists certainly are not. 



The answers to the letters mentioned in the Preface, 

 reflected the same national feeling that one would find 

 in men whose training, or lack of it, is not expected to 



