APPENDIX 



American Journal of Botany 

 Published in cooperation with the Botanical Society of America. 

 Volume XIV (1927) comprised ten issues, as usual, monthly 

 ("omitting August and September), with 51 papers and 643 pages, 

 including a Supplement (published this year for the first time) 

 comprising " Abstracts of the papers presented before the 

 Physiological Section of the Botanical Society of America, 

 Nashville, Tennessee, December 28-30, 1927." Four papers 

 were published on the author-payment plan, according to which, 

 if the author defrays the entire cost, the paper is published im- 

 mediately. The expenses of the Supplement were defrayed by 

 the Physiological Section of the i.otanical Society of America 

 and separate reprints of tin's Supplement were distributed to its 

 members at the Scientific Meetings at Nashville. Dr. E. W. Sin- 

 nott, Connecticut Agricultural College, was appointed Editor-in- 

 Chief at the beginning of the year, and Dr. Arthur Harmount 

 Graves continued as member of the editorial board representing 

 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The circulation of this Journal, 

 as of November 30, 1927 (1490), is believed to be the largest in 

 the world of any journal devoted exclusively to botanical research. 



Ecology 

 Published in cooperation with the Ecological Society of Amer- 

 ica. The four issues of Volume VIII (1927) comprised 68 papers 

 496 pages, 7 plates and 53 text figures. Major Barrington Moore 

 continued as Editor-in-Chief, and Mr. Norman Taylor as Repre- 

 sentative of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on the editorial board. 

 The circulation as of November 30, 1927, was 1001. 



Genetics 



Published bi-monthly in cooperation with the Editorial Board 

 of Genetics. Eight numbers were issued during the year, namely, 



