To Those Interested in 



The Progress of Biology 



Investigatory and Didactic 



We submit the following Record for the 1928 

 period: 



The Achievement 



The beginning of this school year (the fifth 

 after publication) was marked by an increase of 

 more than 33% per cent new adoptions of 

 Menges GENERAL AND PROFESSIONAL 

 BIOLOGY, bringing this standard text for col- 

 leges and universities into its third edition and 

 its fourth printing. 



More than 100 colleges and universities, lo- 

 cated in 34 different states, have now adopted 

 this text for classroom use, ranging from Johns 

 Hopkins University in the East to North Pacific 

 College in the West. 



The Committee of Biologists appointed by a 

 foreign nation to make a study of the world's 

 biology texts for secondary schools, has just 

 chosen Menges THE LAWS OF LIVING 

 THINGS as the most perfect example of what 

 a high-school textbook on that subject should be. 

 The book is now being translated into Spanish 

 by order of the Minister of Public Instruction. 

 It will be printed officially by the Government 

 and immediately becomes the National textbook 

 on biology for secondary schools of that nation. 



The author's SURVEY OF NATIONAL 

 TRENDS IN BIOLOGY has just been com- 

 pleted and is ready for publication. In this sur- 

 vey Dr. Menge was assisted by many of the best- 

 known biologists of seventeen foreign lands. 



