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Congress on Hygiene and Demography, of 

 which Dr. Weber, of Berlin, is chairman 

 and the president and two past presidents 

 of this society are the American members. 

 I believe this to be a fitting time for a more 

 far-reaching attempt to criticize and collate 

 and systematize the work which has been 

 done in many countries and by many ob- 

 servers on the characterization and classi- 

 fication of bacterial types. The inception 

 of such a plan may very properly come 

 from the Society of American Bacteriolo- 

 gists which through its standard card has 

 already done so much for the development 

 of the purely descriptive side of our sci- 

 ence. As a practical outcome of this long 

 survey of the problems of systematic bac- 

 teriology, with which you have borne so 

 patiently, I suggest that we invite fifteen 

 bacteriologists from the principal scientific 

 countries to act as an international com- 

 mission on the characterization and classi- 

 fication of bacterial types, with the general 

 objects outlined above. If you should ap- 

 prove this plan, and if we can secure the 

 cooperation of investigators of the first 

 rank (as I have no doubt wiU be the case), 

 I believe that we can thus render to bacter- 

 iology a great practical service, worthy of 

 the highest aims which our society has 

 held in view. c.-E. A. Winslow 



American Museum of Natural History 



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