SCIENCE 



rRiDAY, July 11, 1919 



CONTENTS 

 Methods of securing Better Cooperation be- 

 tween Oovernment and Laboratory Zoolo- 

 gists in the Solution of Problems of General 

 or National Importance: B. H. Eansom, 

 Professor Herbert Osborn 27 



The Threatened Extinction of the Box HucTcle- 

 herry: Dr. Frederick Y. Coville 30 



Vinal N. Edwards: Dr. Hermon C. Bdmpus. 34 



Scientific Events: — 



The Lister Institute; Science in Australia; 

 Sigma Xi at Syracuse University ; The 

 Tropical Sesearch Station of the New Yorh 

 Zoological Society in British Guiana 35 



Seientifie Notes and News 37 



University and Educational News 40 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Discovery of Calculus: Professor 

 Arthur S. Hathaway. The Pooi- Diener: 

 E. R. L 41 



Scientific Books: — 



Becent Paleobotany in Great Britain: Pho- 

 PBSSOE A. C. Seward . 43 



Special Articles: — 



The BlacTc Chaff of Wheat : Drs. Erwin F. 

 Smith, L. R. Jones and C. S. Reddt 48 



The Buffalo Meeting of the American Chemical 

 Society: Dr. Charles L. Parsons 48 



MSS. inteaded for 'publioation and books, etc., intended for 

 reviffif eIhuiM he se»t to The Editor of Science, Garrison-oB- 

 HudfioB, N. Y. 



METHODS OF SECURING BETTER CO- 

 OPERATION BETWEEN GOVERN- 

 MENT AND LABORATORY ZOOL- 

 OGISTS IN THE SOLUTION OF 

 PROBLEMS OF GENERAL OR 

 NATIONAL IMPORTANCEi 



The Zoolog-ical Division of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry of the Department of Agri- 

 culture is particularly concerned with that 

 branch of zoology commonly known as para- 

 sitology. The Animal Husbandry Division of 

 that Bureau has a special interest in genetics, 

 but as this is a subject that is receiving a 

 good deal of attention from university zool- 

 ogists at the present time the opportunities 

 for cooperation with respect to the zoological 

 work of the Animal Husbandry Division are 

 perhaps better than they are with respect to 

 the work of the Zoological Division. In any 

 case it is not my purpose to consider the ques- 

 tion of cooperation on problems in the field of 

 genetics and my remarks on this occasion are 

 made with reference to the possibility of 

 securing closer cooperation between universi- 

 ties and the Department of AgTiculture in 

 research work in the field of pai-asitology. 



The work of the Zoological Division con- 

 sists chiefly in the investigation of the para- 

 sites of domestic animals and of those trans- 



1 A symposium before tlie Amerioan Society of 

 Zoologists, held at Baltimore on December 26, 1918, 

 Professor C. E. McClung presiding, included papers 

 and discussions as follows: Representing the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, Dr. L. 0. Howard. Discus- 

 sion by J. G. Needham. Representing the Bureau 

 of Fisheries, Dr. Hugh M. Smith. Discussion by Dr. 

 H. B. Ward. Representing the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, Dr. B. H. Ransom. Discussion by Dr. 

 Herbert Osborn. Representing the Bureau of Bio- 

 logical Survey, Dr. E. W. Nelson. Discussion by 

 Dr. E. K. Nabours. Relation of the Council of 

 National Defense and the National Research 

 Council to the Advancement of Research, Dr. John 

 C. Merriam. 



