152 r. C. HABKISON 



IV. CAED INDEX COMPILED FROM ABSTRACTS 



The Library of Congress prepares and issues a card index of 

 books and periodicals. The United States OflBce of Experiment 

 Stations issues a card index of all its publications and that of the 

 experiment stations. Would it be possible, and would it fill 

 a need, if the editors of Abstracts prepared a card index of the 

 papers abstracted? The basis of subscription would have to be 

 the individual card. Laboratories might arrange to subscribe 

 according to the titles and sub-titles of the table of contents of 

 Abstracts. 



General bacteriology should interest all. Agricultural colleges 

 would naturally desire the card index for dairy, soU, and plant 

 bacteriology. Public health laboratories should be interested 

 in water, sewage and food bacteriology' and health board labora- 

 torjr methods and so on. 



Prompt service as regular as the issue of Abstracts would be 

 possible. 



How many would be wUling to subscribe for such a service? 



V. COOPERATION BETWEEN OUR SOCIETl" AND THE AMERICAN 

 PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 



In some regards our Society and the laboratory section of the 

 American Public Health Association cover similar subjects. 

 Both organizations have attempted to standardise technique and 

 methods, both have published so-called standard methods. 

 ^Members of our Society have been prominent in the American 

 Public Health Association and vice versa. I suggest that some 

 form of cooperation be instituted which would prevent any 

 useless duplication of work. The two societies should work 

 together, for in unity there is strength, and projects to be initi- 

 ated by each might well be considered jointty, not necessarily 

 by the whole society in convention, but at any rate by responsi- 

 ble committees of each. 



