AveustT 30, 1918] 
PUBLICATIONS ON EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 
AND GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY 
A SERIES of monographs covering the sub- 
jects of experimental biology and general 
physiology is announced by the J. B. Lippin- 
cott Company under the general editorship of 
Jacques Loeb, T. H. Morgan and W. J. -V. 
Osterhout. The aim and character of the 
series are indicated by the following announce- 
ment of the editors. 
The rapidly increasing specialization makes it 
impossible for one author to cover satisfactorily 
the whole field of modern biology. This situation, 
which exists in all the sciences, has induced Eng- 
lish authors to issue series of monographs in bio- 
chemistry, physiology and physics, A number of 
American biologists have decided to provide the 
same opportunity for the study of experimental 
biology. 
Biology, which not long ago was purely descrip- 
tive and speculative, has begun to adopt the meth- 
ods of the exact sciences, recognizing that for 
permanent progress not only experiments are re- 
quired but that the experiments should be of a 
quantitative character. It will be the task of this 
series of monographs to emphasize and further as 
much as possible this development of biology. 
Experimental biology and general physiology are 
one and the same science, by method as well as by 
contents, since both aim at explaining life from the 
physico-chemical constitution of living matter. 
The series of monographs on experimental biology 
will, therefore, include the field of traditional gen- 
eral physiology. 
The following is a list of the volumes an- 
nounced: 
Published 
Vol. 1. Jacques Loeb (Rockefeller Institute), 
“*Porced Movements, Tropisms and Animal Con- 
duct.’’ 
In Preparation 
T. H. Morgan (Columbia University), 
Chromosome Theory of Heredity.’’ 
E. M. East and D. F. Jones (Bussey Institution, 
Harvard University), ‘‘Inbreeding and Out- 
breeding: Their Genetic and Sociological Sig- 
nificance. ’’ 
H. S. Jennings (Johns Hopkins University), 
‘Pure Line Inheritance.’’ 
R. Pearl (Johns Hopkins University), ‘‘The Ex- 
perimental Modification of the Process of In- 
heritance.’’ 
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E. G. Conklin (Princeton University), ‘‘ Localiza- 
tion of Morphogenie Substances in the Egg.’’ 
R. G. Harrison (Yale University), ‘‘Tissue Cul- 
ture.’’ 
W. J. V. Osterhout (Harvard University), ‘‘Per- 
meability and Electrical Conductivity of Living 
Tissue.’’ 
L. J. Henderson (Harvard University), ‘‘The 
Equilibrium between Acids and Bases in Or- 
ganism and Enyironment.’’ 
T, B, Robertson (University of Toronto), ‘‘Chem- 
ieal Basis of Growth.’’ 
G. H. Parker (Harvard University), ‘‘ Primitive 
Nervous System.’’ 
A. R. Moore (Rutgers College), ‘‘ Coordination in 
Locomotion. ’’ 
There is also announced the publication of 
The Journal of General Physiology under the 
editorship of Dr. Jacques Loeb, the Rocke- 
feller Institute for Medical Research, New 
York, and Professor W. J. V. Osterhout, Har- 
vard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
It will be published bimonthly from the 
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 
beginning in September. The editors say: 
The Journal of General Physiology is intended 
to serve as an organ of publication for papers de- 
voted to the investigation of life processes from 
a physico-chemical viewpoint. As the constitution 
of matter is the main problem of physies and 
physical chemistry, so the constitution of living 
matter is the main problem of general physiol- 
ogy, and in both cases the method of quantitative 
experimentation is required. 
Under the pressure of the demands of medicine 
and of other professions, physiology has developed 
in the direction of an applied science, with limited 
opportunity for the investigation of purely theo- 
retical problems. On the other hand, the physico- 
chemical methods of analyzing life phenomena have 
thus far made little’ inroad into the domain of 
zoology and botany. Under these circumstances, 
it has happened that what might be regarded as 
the most fundamental of all the biological scei- 
ences, namely general physiology, has not come to 
have a journal of its own. It is this condition 
which the establishment of The Journal of General 
Physiology is intended to correct. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. Wittiam WaLiace CAMPBELL, director 
of the Lick Observatory, University of Cali- 
