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stracts. Then Mathews has failed to take into account the many 

 overhead expenses in such a series of Journals — postage, clerical 

 work, corrections, bad accounts and a thousand other items which 

 are inevitable. 



F. C. Koch, Univ. of Chicago. The Mathews plan for the Or- 

 ganization of the Amer. Biol. Soc'y appeals to me as practicable 

 without doubt, and as very desirable and necessary. 



Edwin Linton, Washington and Jefferson Col. A large num- 

 ber of working biologists are to be found among teachers in high 

 schools and the smaller Colleges. Many of them are obliged to 

 conduct elementary courses in as diverse subjects as anatomy, bac- 

 teriology, botany, physiology and zoology. It is out of the question 

 for the majority of such teachers, or of the institutions which they 

 represent, to subscribe for the list of Journals enumerated by Dr. 

 Mathews on page 264 of the Biochemical Bulletin for January, 

 1913. To such persons, access to this entire list of Journals would 

 add greatly to their efficiency as teachers and as workers in biology. 

 Therefore, any plan whereby a larger number of the various bio- 

 logical publications will be made available than is now the case to 

 the majority of biologists should command the sympathetic con- 

 sideration of all biologists. 



F. E. Lloyd, McGill Univ. I am very much impressed with the 

 Biolog. Soc'y proposition, set forth in Mathews' paper. For a long 

 time it has seemed to me that we have a lot to learn f rom the chem- 

 ists, and I quite believe that some such effort as outlined by Mathews 

 would go a long way toward unifying and stimulating effort. I 

 shall be glad to coöperate in any way that I can. I feel that the 

 details should be gone into pretty thoroughly, so as to get the costs 

 down as much as possible, but an abstract Journal analogous to the 

 Chem. Ahstracts would be of immense value. 



HuGH McGuiGAN, Northwestern Univ. Med. Seh. The Math- 

 ews plan suggests improvements that seem feasible. To make it 

 more definite, the estimated costs should be worked out by a com- 

 mittee of publishers and scientists and an authoritative Statement 

 of the cost presented. The Federation of Amer. Socs. for Exp. 

 Biol. forms an excellent nucleus to commence with and is a step 

 toward the consummation of the plan. 



