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and Bacteriol. would probably prefer to keep separate, althongh it might 

 be better to iinite. It certainly is a most interesting proposition that 

 you submit for expression of opinion. 



G. H. Parker, Hamard Univ. I approve of Mathews' plan in gen- 

 eral for the establishment of an Amer. Biolog. Soc'y and I would couple 

 with that the Suggestion that such a society should replace the " Natu- 

 ralists," in that this society might well be abolished and the Biolog. Soc'y 

 be made a new center for the smaller societies to gather round. 



Richard M. Pearce, Univ. of Penn. I do not feel that I can truth- 

 fully say that I favor the plan which Dr. Mathews suggests for an 

 Amer. Biolog. Soc'y. The men in pathology, clinical medicine, and 

 surgery, who are interested in experimental pathology, are now f orming 

 an Organization to be known as the Soc. of Exper. Pathology. This 

 will meet at Christmas with the Amer. Physiol. Soc, the Soc. of Biolog. 

 Chem. and the Soc. for Pharmacol. and Exper, Therap. It will look 

 forward eventually to becoming a constituent member of the Federa- 

 tion of the Amer. Societies for Exper. Biology. 



This affiliation will give all these groups a point of contact with 

 the physiologists, chemists and pharmacologists at Christmas, and, on 

 the other band, in the Spring it will have a point of contact with the 

 Assoc. of Pathol. and Bacteriol. and the Assoc. of Amer. Physicians. 

 Thus, all the needs of experimental pathology will appear to be served. 

 You See that with this arrangement there is little need for the forma- 

 tion of other affiliations. 



Raymond Pearl, Maine Agric. Exper. Station. It seems to me 

 that the plan of Prof. A. P. Mathews for the Organization of an Amer. 

 Biolog. Soc'y, to which attention was called in your circular letter, has 

 much to commend it. Personally I should very much like to see such 

 a consolidation of the various scattered biological societies accom- 

 plished. The point made by Professor Mathews that the present con- 

 dition of affairs renders the science of biology as a whole less effective 

 in the Community than it ought to be is a strong argument in favor of 

 affiliation. 



Although in entire sympathy with the general features of the plan, 

 as outlined by Professor Mathews, I feel somewhat uncertain as to 

 whether it will be possible practically to bring about at the present time 

 any affiliation of the biological societies, which shall be at once widely 

 inclusive in its scope and closely articulated in its Organization — and 

 both of these things seem to be necessary if the plan is to have any real 



