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lination of Pear Flowers " (1894) was mentioned in an important 

 German journal/® But the reviewer had not studied the bulletin; 

 in fact, had learned of it only from a scant notice in Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. In 1894 Galloway had tried to bring American work 

 more to the attention of European scholars. He arranged with 

 editors of Just's Jahresberichte, Hedwigia, and Botaniscbe Cen- 

 iralhlatt to furnish abstracts of articles by Division members, and 

 placed Joseph F. James in charge of the abstracting, instructing 

 him to prepare his work in conjunction with the authors of the 

 articles. Scientists in America as well as in Europe had complained 

 that they had not received regularly or at all the publications of 

 the Division. Smith told Galloway: 



The necessity for a wide distribution of our publications among scien- 

 tific workers in the same field can not be gainsaid. Science knows no 

 country or nation, but is broad as the world, and if we are to keep abreast 

 of modern scientific work in the line of plant diseases we must be in 

 constant touch and communication with workers in this field in all parts 

 of the world, and the only possible way by which this can be done is to 

 send our own publications promptly to these workers wherever they are 

 in the world so that we may receive in exchange their own publications, 

 many of which are of the utmost importance to our own work, and ulti- 

 mately to the fruit growing and farming population of the United States. 

 The scientific workers of the world as a rule are very willing to exchange, 

 but they can not be expected to give something for nothing. Neither are 

 we in condition to purchase all of their publications, even if we knew 

 when and where they were published. 



Satisfactory intercommunication between research centers of the 

 world was needed in plant pathology and mycology. Fairchild's 

 indices to literature since 1892 had included foreign sources, and, 

 for a few years after 1886, Annals of Botany, of which Farlow 

 was American editor, had published valuable botanical bibliog- 

 raphies which included references to American work. Fairchild, 

 before he had gone abroad, had completed extensive work on 

 fungicides including bibliographical references nearly a century 

 old. His total number of references was estimated by Galloway 

 as " something over eighteen hundred." ^^ The Botanical Club, 

 or Section G, of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, at its Madison meeting, had appointed a committee 



^* Material taken from a letter by E. F. Smith to Galloway, January 31, 1895. 

 ^■'Letter from Galloway to Halsted, April 6, 1894. 



