500 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



Emerson, H. S. Jennings, T. H. Morgan, and Raymond Pearl, and with Dr. 

 Geo. H. Shull as managing editor. The initial number contains a reproduction 

 of a hitherto unpublished portrait of Gregor Mendel, and original articles on 

 Nondisjunction as Proof of the Chromosome Theory of Heredity, by C. B. 

 Bridges ; The Numerical Results of Diverse Systems of Breeding, by H. S. 

 Jennings; and Hereditary Anchylosis of the Proximal Phalangeal Joints (Sym- 

 phalangism), by H. Gushing. 



Bollettino di Studi ed Informazioni del R. Giardino Colcmiale di Palermo is 

 being issued by the Royal Colonial Garden at Palermo, Italy, primarily for 

 the presentation of the results of its scientific work. This deals with prob- 

 lems in colonial agriculture, especially the introduction and improvement of 

 useful plants. The institution was formerly a section of the Royal Botanical 

 Garden but was given its present status under a decree of August 21, 1913, at 

 which time about $3,500 per annum was made available for its work. An 

 article by Dr. Guiseppe Catalano describes the activities of the institution in 

 detail. 



The Jouivml of Immunology has been established as the official organ of the 

 Society for Serologj' and Hematology and the American Association of Im- 

 niunologists, and is being published bimonthly. The initial number contains 

 several original articles on anaphylaxis, complement fixation, and the fate of 

 various bodies on the precipitin reaction, and the scientific proceedings of the 

 Society for Serology' and Hematology at its meeting held December 3, 1915. 



Ferment forschung is being published at Leipsic under the direction of Dr. 

 E. Abderhalden. The initial numbers consist of numerous contributions from 

 various Gorman laboratories on the synthesis of polypeptids, peptones, and 

 proteids by means of enzynis, the Van Slyke method for the determination of 

 amino nitrogen, the chemical nature of catala.'^e, etc. 



The Scientific Mmithly has been established by the former publishers and 

 editorial management of the Popular Science Monthly, and is to be conducted 

 along the lines followetl by that journal in recent years. The Popular Seienee 

 Monthly has been acquired by a new management and will be devoted to popu- 

 larized science for the general public. 



The Journnl of Cancer Research is being published quarterly by the Ameri- 

 can Association for Cancer Research. Tlie initial number contains several 

 original artich's and the proceetlings of the 1915 meeting of the association. 



Miscellaneous. — Science annoimces that a Vienna manufacturer has given 

 $100,000 to establish an in.stitution for the technical study of nutrition. This 

 institution is to be called the Institut fiir Volkserniihrung, and is to correlate 

 the findings of organic chemistry, biologj', physiology, etc. 



Director T. E. Quisenberry, of the Missouri Poultry Station at Mountain 

 Grove, has resigned to enage in commercial work. 



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