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[N. S. Vol. XLIII. No. 1106 



Tuberculosis caused the largest number of eon- 

 demnations and hog cholera the next. The blight- 

 ing effect of Texas fever upon a large section of 

 the country was referred to, and the success in the 

 campaign for eradicating the tick causing the dis- 

 ease was pointed out. The results are already ap- 

 parent in an extension and improvement of the 

 cattle industry. 



The importance of the control of animal dis- 

 eases in relation to the production of meat and the 

 Uve-stoek industry was summed up in the state- 

 ment: "The good judgment and knowledge pos- 

 sessed by the individual producer of animal-food 

 products concerning the diseases of his animals 

 will determine his success. ' ' 



The oificers elected for the coming year were as 

 follows: Vice-president, Dr. W. H. Jordan, di- 

 rector of the State Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Geneva, N. Y.; Dean F. B. Mumford, of the 

 University of Missouri, a member of the council, 

 and Dean Alfred Vivian, of Ohio iState University, 

 a member of the sectional committee (for five 

 years) . 



E. W. Allen, 



Secretary 



U. S. Department of Agriculture 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF 

 NATURALISTS 



The thirty-third annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Naturalists was held at Ohio State 

 University, Columbus, on December 30, 1915. In 

 affiliation with the society this year were the 

 American Society of Zoologists and the Botanical 

 Society of America. 



The report of the treasurer, stating a balance on 

 hand of $676.14, was accepted. 



The two following resolutions were adopted. 



1. Eesolved, That the American Society of Nat- 

 uralists recognizes the urgent need in the United 

 States of reform in the methods of securing evi- 

 dence of expert opinion in judicial procedure; 

 That the American Society of Naturalists ap- 

 proves the efforts of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science in this behalf; 

 and. That the executive committee is hereby au- 

 thorized and directed to cooperate with the com- 

 mittee of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science in the endeavor to bring 

 about such reform. 



2. Eesolved, That the American Society of Nat- 

 uralists, recognizing the centigrade scale of tem- 

 perature measurement as based on better prin- 



ciples than that of the Fahrenheitj emphatically 

 urges its adoption by the Senate and House of 

 Representatives as the standard in government 

 publications of the United States of America. 



It .was ordered that the executive committee of 

 the Naturalists be instructed to appropriate $200 

 to the Concilium Bibliographicum, Zurich. 



A motion that the Naturalists schedule no pro- 

 gram at its annual meeting for Thursday fore- 

 noon was referred to the executive committee. 



There were elected to membership the follow- 

 ing: G. A. Baitsell, Yale University; John Bel- 

 ling, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station; H-. 

 N. Collins, U. S. Department of Agriculture; W. 

 J. Crozier, Bermuda Biological Station; B. M. 

 Duggar, Missouri Botanical Garden; R-. K. Gates, 

 University of California; C. H. Heuser, Wistar 

 Institute; Julian Huxley, Rice Institute; I. .T. 

 Kligler, American Museum of Natural History; 

 H. H. Laughlin, Eugenics Record Office; Orren 

 Lloyd- Jones, Iowa State College; L. B. Nice, Uni- 

 versity of Oklahoma; Oscar Riddle, Carnegie Sta- 

 tion for Experimental Evolution; J. W. Scott, 

 University of Wyoming; Gaylord Swindle, Fair- 

 view, Mo.; P. F. Swindle, Fairview, Mo.; J. E. 

 Wodsedalek, University of Idaho; S. G. Wright, 

 Bua'eau of Animal Industries. 



By a vote of thanks the society expressed its 

 hearty appreciation of the facilities and courtesies 

 extended by the social committee and by the Ohio 

 State University. 



The program of the morning session was as fol- 

 lows: 



F. M. Surface, "On the Inheritance of Certain 

 Grain Characters in Oats." (Read by title.) 



G. H. Shull, "The Inheritance of Acidia in 

 Fraxinus americana.'' 



I. W. Bailey, ' ' Botanical Evidence in Regard to 

 Climate and Evolution." 



A. P. Blakeslee, ' ' Two Plants Adapted to Class- 

 work in Genetics. ' ' 



E. C. Jeffrey, ' ' Hybridism and the Rate of 

 Evolution in Angiosperms. " 



L. J. Cole, and W. H. Wright, "The Applica- 

 tion of the Pure-line Concept to Bacteria." 



Oscar Riddle (by invitation), "Sex Control and 

 Known Correlations in Pigeons." 



H. H. Love, "Variations in Daisies." (Read 

 by title.) 



C. B. Davenport, ' ' Heredity of Stature. ' ' 



A. M. Banta, "The Necessity of Sexual Repro- 

 duction in Certain Cladocera." 



C. C. Little, and E. E. Tyzzer, "Inheritance of 



