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SCIENCE 



195 



A carefully prepared bibliography of 110 

 titles furnishes a ready key to the most im- 

 portant contributions to the literature. 



One can but wish that the policy of the 

 editors of tlie University of California Pub- 

 lications in Zoology provided for an index to 

 individual papers, at least of the size of this 

 one. This book, with no index, will probably 

 be used as a separate publication by ten per- 

 sons to one who will ever have occasion to 

 consult it as boiuid in the volumes of tlie Pub- 

 lications in Zoology. 



Walter P. T.wlor 



Bureau of Biological Survey 



BOTANICAL ABSTRACTS 



The plan of organization of a permanent 

 board of control of botanical abstracts as out- 

 lined in the columns of this journal,' was ef- 

 fected at the Southern Hotel in Baltimore, on 

 December 29, 1918. A joint meeting was held 

 of the members of the temporary board, of the 

 permanent board and of the board of editors 

 at which was discussed many of the problems 

 arising in connection with the undertaking. 

 The following persons were present: A. F. 

 Blakeslee, H. C. Cowles, B. M. Davis, B. M. 

 Duggar, C. S. Gager, J. M. Greenman, A. S. 

 Hitchcock, O. E. Jennings, B. E. Livingston, 

 D. T. McDougal, Geo. E. Nichols, E. W. Olive, 

 D. Eeddick, J. K. Schramm and E. \V. Sinnott. 



The permanent board of control, which con- 

 sists of two representatives elected from each 

 of the allied societies, b^an functioning at 

 this meeting. Some societies have been un- 

 able to hold a meeting at which representa- 

 tives could be elected so that the following list 

 represents the board as at present constituted :- 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, Section G, B. E. Livingston (4), A. 

 F. Blakeslee (2) ; Botanical Society of Amer- 

 ica, Physiological Section, B. M. Duggar (4), 



» June 7, 1918, p. 558. 



2 The term of some members expires in two 

 years and of others in four years, as indicated, but 

 at the meetings of December, 1920, a new member 

 will be elected by each of the participating societies 

 for a term of four years, and such elections will 

 be biennial thereafter. 



W. J. Osrterhout (2), Morphological Section, 

 B. M. Dax-is (4), E. A. Harper (2), Systematic 

 Section, J. H. Barnhart (4), A. S. Hitchcock 

 (2) ; American Society of Naturalists, E. M. 

 East (4), J. Arthur Harris (2) ; Ecological So- 

 ciety of America, Forrest Shrove (4), Geo. H. 

 Nichols (2); American Phytopathological So- 

 ciety, D. Reddiek (4), C. L. Shear (2) ; Paleon- 

 tological Society of America, E. W. Berry (4), 

 F. H. Knowlton (2) ; Society of American For- 

 esters, J. S. lUick (4), Barrington Moore (2); 

 Society for Horticultural Science. 



The following actions were taken. They do 

 not constitute the exact minutes of the meet- 

 ing but are a codification of them with the 

 omission of matters of ephemeral consequence. 

 The temporary board of control was called to 

 order at nine o'clock. It was voted unani- 

 mously that retiring members of the perma- 

 nent board of control be not eligible for im- 

 mediate reelection. The permanent board was 

 thereupon oi^anized with Donald Reddiek and 

 J. R. Schramm as temporarj' chairman and 

 secretary, respectively. 



Vote by ballot resulted in the election of 

 Donald Reddiek as chairman of the board of 

 control of botanical abstracts. It was voted 

 that an executive committee of five including 

 the chairman be named by the chair, in con- 

 sultation with the secretary. Drs. Harper, 

 Livingston, Nichols and Shear were named. 

 It was voted that the executive committee act 

 as a committee on policy and make recommen- 

 dations to the board of control prior to the 

 annual meetings. Also that it attend to all 

 ad interim business not involving change of 

 policy. 



The executive committee was given instruc- 

 tions as follows: (1) To incorporate the board 

 of control of botanical abstracts; (2) to close a 

 five-year printing and publishing contract with 

 the Williams & Wilkins Co. of Baltimore; (3) 

 to select editors for the sections for 1919, in- 

 cluding those sections not now provided for; 

 (4) to study and make a report at the next an- 

 nual meeting on the arrangement of sections 

 present within a fortnight to the botanical 

 representative of the committee on grants of 

 with reference to mycology; (5) to prepare and 



