October 18, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



511 



doiTbt that some rather important matter on 

 Tareeding has been issued by some of our ex- 

 periment stations which I have not seen. If, 

 iowever, we had a journal of plant-breeding 

 in which every breeder in the experiment 

 stations would describe in full or at least in 

 ■summary his important results, I could soon 

 look over that journal and feel confident of 

 knowing what had been accomplished by the 

 experiment-station workers. 



Purely scientific articles could be piiblished, 

 possibly in some of the existing scientific 

 journals, but these will not meet the require- 

 ments. The station is given public funds for 

 conducting investigations and it would seem 

 necessary that they have a recognized place 

 ■of publication. They can not be altogether 

 dependent on private sources of publication. 

 Many articles in any case will find their way 

 to established scientific periodicals and a 

 liberal amount of such publications should, 

 the writer believes, be encouraged. He feels, 

 however, that it is absolutely necessary to 

 have distinctive publications for the stations 

 which will represent their work. 



A modification of the above plan which 

 might more nearly meet the views of some 

 persons would be to publish separate bulletins 

 numbered consecutively under each series or 

 subject, i. e.j Agronomy Bulletins, 1, 2, 3, etc., 

 or Dairy Industry, 1, 2, 3, etc. Similar to 

 the publications of the Carnegie Institution, 

 -except classified under different subjects so 

 that it would not be so difiicult to determine 

 "what had been published on a given subject. 

 Each bulletin in this case to be sold sepa- 

 rately. While there are many points in 

 favor of such separate publication and sale, 

 the writer believes that all things considered, 

 a periodical publication which can. be sub- 

 scribed for by the volume meets more of the 

 requirements. The writer has submitted the 

 substance of this paper to several of his col- 

 leagues for criticism and suggestions. In a 

 letter regarding the matter. Director L. H. 

 Bailey states : 



I have gone over your proposition for a series 

 of publications and I lilce it very much. ... I feel 

 that the series should have unity and solidarity. 



Rather than to have the series of journals I think 

 there ought to be one series of memoirs, perhaps 

 broken up into parts representing the different 

 subjects. These parts could be published sepa- 

 rately. References tlien could be made to the 

 memoirs as a whole with a designation as to Bot- 

 any series, Plant Breeding series, Poultry series, 

 and the like, much as is done at the present time 

 ■with the Annales des Sciences. The assessment 

 against the institutions for such publication could 

 not be made against the Adams Fund, as that 

 can not be used for publication. I suspect that 

 most of the institutions already mortgage their 

 Hatch Fund for publication as heavily as they 

 ought. However, I am sure that some way could 

 be found whereby the money could be secured. 



Doctor T. L. Lyon writes as follows : 



I have looked over the plan you propose for 

 publishing the technical results obtained by the 

 several experiment stations. This strikes me as 

 an extremely good plan and I see no reason why 

 it could not be put into execution. I should like 

 to make one suggestion that I think might make 

 the plan work a little more smoothly. I notice 

 that you provide for expense of pviblication by 

 charging for the several publications, and dividing 

 these publications into series based upon the sub- 

 jects of which they treat. In order that due 

 economy shall be exercised in the publication, the 

 committee in charge of each series should receive 

 annually a sum of money proportional to the 

 amount received in subscriptions, which together 

 with the subscription fees should be available for 

 meeting the expense of publication. An arrange- 

 ment of this kind will, I think, result in having 

 each series appeal to a sufficient constituency to 

 make its publication worth while. I have given 

 some attention to the arrangement of series that 

 you propose. It seems to me that if there is any 

 improvement to be made in your arrangement it 

 would be in decreasing the number of series. I 

 have thought of the following arrangement: 



Plant Production (including investigations in 

 soils, plant nutrition and propagation, atmosphere 

 and water) . 



Plant Life (including anatomy, composition, 

 physiology and pathology). 



Principles of Breeding. 



Dairy Investigation. 



Animal Production (including improvements by 

 breeding, nutrition, care and management). 



Veterinary Science (including anatomy, com- 

 position, physiology and pathology). 



Entomology. 



