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pagande." The propaganda, however, appear to be those of French 

 colonisation rather than of science. The only other article that at all 

 comes within our purview is that of the navigability of the Mekong, 

 by J. B. d'Attanoux. 



The Open Court (Chicago) has changed into a monthly magazine 

 in octavo form. The annual subscription, including postage, is one 

 dollar. The February number contains an article by Prof. A. S. 

 Packard on Lamarck and Neo-Lamarckism, which discusses the 

 actual writings, too often overlooked, of Lamarck himself as well as 

 Prof. Cope's book, " The Factors of Evolution," recently reviewed in 

 our own pages. We wish this mteresting and outspoken journal all 

 success in its new shape. 



To OUR French and German Colleagues ! 



Professor D. T. MacDougal points out in the Botanical Gazette for 

 December, that a German botanist has recently duplicated the c n- 

 tribution of an American botanist " in a manner which admits of no 

 extenuation." "His ignornnce," Siys Mr. M.icD lugal, "may be 

 directly due to the fact that ' the file of the Botanical Gazette is not to 

 be found in the Marburg Institute,' but it is a logical outcome of the 

 assumption that the boundaries of botanical science are identical wiih 

 those of Gerinan\ . Our brethren across the water would do well to 

 rid themselves of this errone'ous idea, once more nearly true than at 

 present. Their repeatecJ disregard of outside literature will certamly 

 do much to lessen the prestige of the German Institute." We have 

 seen similar complaints elsewhere, indt-ed, we have ourselves 

 experienced this ignoring habit of our German colleagues. We will 

 not sugi^est that they might do well to read the pages of Natural 

 Science, but we have certainly been surprised to hear that so indis- 

 pensable a publication as the Zoological Record is hardly known in 

 Germany. The French err in a rather different direction, since they 

 do not seem to care whether their colleagues in other countries read 

 their books or not. It is only thus that we can account for the fnct 

 that so few French publishers take the trouble- t> send us their books 

 for review. A work like " L'Heredite " of Professor Yves Delage 

 would surely hnd readers in this country, if only their attention could 

 be drawn to it. 



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