49° Occiipational Diseases in Chemical Trades [April 



3. Dr. Charles Baskerznil e prepared a report for the Factory 

 Investigating Commission of the State of New York on " Wood 

 alcohol." 



These reports, which are n'ow in press and will soon be available, 

 contain suggestions for new legislation. Bills have been introduced 

 carrying these suggestions. Among them is one which involves 

 the appointment of a Chemical Engineer as one of the four members 

 of the Division of Industrial Hygiene of the proposed reorganized 

 Department of Labor. 



N. Y. 



In an editorial in the January number of the Biochemical 

 Bulletin, we referred briefly to the recent Organization of the 

 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and 



The Mathews plan ^^ommended to the attention of our readers the 

 for an American '' Mathews plan for the Organization of an 



Biological Society American Biological Society." Our attitude 

 toward the establishment, and our feeling regarding the con- 

 sequences of the logical development, of the Federation were in- 

 dicated in that editorial. In pursuance of our purpose to facilitate 

 consideration and removal of the difficulties in the way of more 

 effective biological Organization in this country, we addressed, lata 

 this month, the following circular note to the members of four of 

 the leading biological societies : 



The Biochemical Bulletin invites your attention to the Mathews 

 plan for the Organization of the American Biological Society (reprint 

 heretvithY and solicits a brief expression of your opinion regarding the 

 feasibility of the plan, for publication, with similar comment, in an early 

 issue of the Biochemical Bulletin. 



As we go to press, replies to this letter are arriving with every 

 mail. We append copies of some of the responses that are typical 

 of the entire group already received. The remaining letters, to- 

 gether with all others received meanwhile, will be published in suc- 

 ceeding issues of the Bulletin, in the ho'pe that through this 

 agency the problems involved in more perfect federation or con- 

 solidation of biological societies will be fully exposed for discus- 



" Reprint of the paper by Dr. Mathews on pages 261-268 of this volume 

 (1913, ii). 



