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Heretofore articles in the field of American ecology have chiefly 

 appeared in botanical and zoological publications and in the English 

 Journal of Ecology." The new journal will serve a much needed field 

 for American students engaged in many fields of biological science. 



Moore, in the presidential address delivered last year before the St. 

 Louis meeting of the Ecological Society of America, stated that all life 

 is controlled by two great forces, heredity and environment and ecology 

 is the science dealing with environment. Accepting this interpretation 

 of ecology, it is related in one way or another to every science which 

 touches life. In former years the biological field was chiefly concerned 

 with the analytical field in which the various biological sciences were 

 approached from separate and more or less remote points of view. 

 In recent years the synthetic field of biology has engaged the attention 

 of scientists and, as Moore states, "many sciences have been developed 

 to the point where contact and cooperation with related sciences are 

 essential to full development." It is evident that in this field of syn- 

 thetic biology the problems require the work of zoologists, botanists, 

 foresters, agriculturalists, meteorologists, chemists, physicists, bac- 

 teriologists and geologists. For this reason ecologists to a far greater 

 extent than is the case with men engaged in most other fields of science 

 have need for cooperation. The new journal should provide the means 

 for attaining the cooperation so essential. More than this, as its pages 

 are open to men engaged in all fields of ecology, it should become a 

 fruitful medium for enlarging the point of view and broadening the 

 vision of specialists in every field. 



The Journal should be read by every student ■ engaged in research 

 in every science which deals with the biological environmental factors. 



The editorial board is composed of fifteen scientists for the most 

 part engaged in ecological, physiological, and forestry research. The 

 business management of the Journal is in the hands of Dr. Gager and 

 it is published quarterly by the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. 



Tile table of contents of the first number is as follows: 



Foreword. 



The Scope of Ecology Barrington Moore 



The Control of Pneumonia and Influenza by the Weather. .Ellsworth Huntington 



Evidence of Climatic Effects in the Annual Rings of Trees A. E. Douglas 



Possible Effect of Seasonal and Laboratory Conditions on the Behavior of 

 the Copepod Acartia Tonsa, and the Bearing of this on the Question 



of Diurnal Migration Calvin O. Esterly 



A Note on tlie Ecology of Tlerrins W. E. Praeger 



