January 3, 1919] 



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been formed. National committees are being 

 formed in the twenty-four nations which have 

 adhered to the plan. 



Dr. Edward Martin, major in the Medical 

 Eeserve Corps and stationed at a camp in 

 Georgia, has been elected emeritus professor of 

 surgical physiology at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



LANTERN SLIDES OF NORTHERN FRANCE 



In response to a request from the National 

 War Work Council, Y. M. C. A., for a set of 

 lantern slides to illustrate their cantonment 

 lectures on northern France, I began last June 

 to search for photographs in various official 

 and commercial collections by which the 

 French views in the Gardner photograph 

 collection of Harvard University might be 

 supplemented. The search soon proving xm- 

 suecessful, a list of desired views was sent to 

 Professor Lucien Gallois of the University of 

 Paris, in the hope that he might be able to 

 supply them : but he was just then called out 

 with others to aid refugees who had been 

 driven from their homes by the German ad- 

 vance to Chateau-Thierry on the Marne; and 

 not until October was a shipment of 69 nega- 

 tives received from him, representing the best 

 selection that he could make under conditions 

 as then limited. Since then a further delay 

 in announcing the series has been occasioned 

 by waiting for some admirable photographs 

 taken during his service in France and lately 

 brought home by Major Douglas W. Johnson. 



The series of slides thus formed contains 

 views of imequal value, some being reproduced 

 from half-tone prints; but it represents the 

 best collection I have been able to bring to- 

 gether. The happy coming of the armistice 

 and the resulting dismemberment of the S. A. 

 T. C.'s make the present annoimcement of the 

 series rather out of season; but as the geog- 

 raphy of northern France is likely to be a 

 subject of general collegiate interest for some 

 time to come the slides may be taken as 

 " better late than never." The negatives have 



been placed in the hands of Mr. B. S. Turpin, 



491 Boylston St., Boston, Mass., from whom 

 a list of the slides with statement of cost may 

 be obtained. All correspondence should be 

 addressed to Mr. Turi>in. 



Good photographs of the following districts 

 are much desired for the improvement of the 

 series : General view of uplands adjoining the 

 valley of the Somme, east of Amiens; up- 

 lands near Paris ; general view of Laon, show- 

 ing city on hill surmounting plain; general 

 view of Rheims; escarpment of the first up- 

 land belt, southwest of Eheims; valley of the 

 Mouse at Verdmi ; general view of Nancy ; 

 valley of the Onie in west slope of the fifth 

 upland belt; escarpment at the notch of 

 Saveme, looking north; general views in 

 Lorraine east of Metz and of Nancy; view 

 of the Vosges, looking west from the plain of 

 Alsace; view of the plain of Alsace, from 

 the foothills of the Vosges. 



W. M. Davis 



CAMBRmcE, Mass. 



BIOLOGICAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 



The German people have seen to it that the 

 scientific literature of the world has been 

 printed in German, that their people may have 

 access to it. Other jieoples have not done this, 

 and the result is that the scientific world has 

 been forced to know German. It has become 

 the habit of most of our English and American 

 scientists, as Avell as those in other countries, 

 to publish their discoveries first in German 

 and then (if they get to it) to publish in tlieir 

 own language. 



A few years ago. when desiring an English 

 translation of Fruwirth's " Die Biichtung der 

 landwirtschaftlichen Kulturpflanzen," a four- 

 volume work on the breeding of field crops, the 

 present writer located translators, took up the 

 matter with the publisher, Paul Parey of 

 Berlin, and looked for an English publisher. 

 The American publishing houses agreed that 

 the data should be in English, but considered 

 that they would not sell enough copies to pay 

 for the undertaking. 



Is it not about time that the English-'speak- 

 ing people see to it tliat the scientific literature 



