500 Mathews Plan for Amerkan Biological Society [April 



Since Professor Loeb and myself started applying the principles of 

 physical chemistry and colloidal chemistry to biology as a whole and to 

 physiological chemistr}* in particular, so much work has been done along 

 these special lines, that a separate chapter should be devoted to these 

 subjects in the Jour. of Abstracts, if it is not possible to run a Journal 

 along the same lines as the Zeit. f. Chem. u. Ind. d. Kolloide. 



I realize the importance of getting money for putting the project 

 on a sound financial basis. I do not, however, like the idea of discrimi- 

 nating against foreign subscribers by making them pay the same rate 

 as libraries pay (see page 265 of Mathews' article, fifth line from the 

 bottom). It should be possible for foreigners to join the proposed 

 Amer. Biolog. SocV and to share all the advantages of this society. 

 Special stipulation should be made whereby libraries will be excluded 

 from membership. 



I do not quite understand what is meant by a " Jour. of Biolog. In- 

 dustries." This might mean anything from the making of vaccines, 

 or filters, or patent medicines to shoe leather. 



On the whole I believe that the Wistar Institute of Anatomy should 

 be given füll charge of all the publications of the proposed Amer. 

 Biolog. Soc'y and that all the Journals mentioned on page 264, including 

 the Biolog. Abstract Jour., should be available for $25.00 a year. 



E. G. Martin, Harvard Med. School. I approve the Mathews plan 

 for a common Biolog. Soc'y in its general outline, and in the proposed 

 feature of a Biolog. Abstract Jour. If, incidentally, the cost of the 

 other Journals can be decreased, so much the better. I do not believe, 

 however, that the plan of a combined subscription for all the Journals 

 is good. No biologist who has access to a general library has shelf 

 room to give to thirteen Journals, half of which are wholly out of his 

 line, and most of the others of only occasional use. 



J. F. McClexdox, Cornell Univ. Med. College. I would like to see 

 the " Mathews Plan " for an Amer. Biolog. Soc'y in Operation. 



A. R. IMooRE, Univ. of Cal. The " plan for the Organization of the 

 Amer. Biolog. Soc'y " seems to me an excellent one. I shall be glad to 

 Support such a scheme most heartily. 



Max Morse, Trinity College. The fact that other scientific groups 

 such as the chemists have been successful in organizing must not be 

 taken as a basis for believing that the biologists would be likewise suc- 

 cessful. The attempt which has been made in the past to correlate 

 biological societies has not been successful. This is due to the fact, 



