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A JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 
Cooperation in science doubles the value of each man’s knowl- 
edge and efforts. The Ecological Society of America, compris- 
ing zoologists, botanists, foresters, agricultural investigators, 
climatologists and geographers, is a link in the cooperative chain 
which will bind the natural sciences together. The society has 
long felt the need of having its own journal, and at its St. Louis 
meeting last December voted to start a serial publication to 
present original papers of an ecological character. 
The enterprise is made possible by the generous action of the 
owners of Plant World, who are giving this magazine to the 
Ecological Society to continue as its official organ. The new 
serial will begin as an illustrated quarterly of about 200 to 300 
pages per year, known as Ecology. The Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden is undertaking the publication of this journal in coopera- 
tion with the Ecological Society under an agreement substanially 
like that under which the American Journal of Botany 1s now 
being published. The Plant World will complete the present 
volume, number 22, and Ecology will begin with the number for 
January, 1920. Major Barrington Moore, now serving his 
second term as president of the Ecological Society, has been 
elected editor-in-chief. (Science, Feb. 13, 1920.) 
MOKGHS. ©l* TREBS 
I had an interesting conversation today with Mr. John Grim- 
shaw. Wilkinson, the blind botanist of Leeds, referred to in Pro- 
fessor W. H. Bragg’s lecture on Sounds at the Royal Institution 
yesterday. Mr. Wilkinson became blind when twenty-two years 
of age, and he was sixty-four a few days ago. Immediately on 
becoming blind he took up science, particularly botany, and pur- 
sued it until he became a well-known authority. 
Before his affliction he was a grocer, but had distinct artistic 
tastes and gifts. When he was blind he accompanied a friend 
into the country at Templenewsam, where three years before he 
