Septembek 17j 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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I have been in California only six years — 

 happy years — but these six years more than 

 cover the period during which the fusion of 

 the two university medical schools has been 

 under consideration. During this period the 

 universities have not lent themselves to so 

 unworthy a purpose. The institutional rela- 

 tions have been friendly, indeed, and a spirit 

 of cooperation has prevailed throughout. This 

 is in keeping with the spirit of the west. The 

 disregard for little things, the helping hand 

 and feeling heart, are the legacy of pioneer 

 days just passed. Besides, there really is very 

 little occasion or basis for imseemly inter-uni- 

 versity rivalry. Stanford set its limits re- 

 garding enrollment and is maintaining them, 

 and with an attendance of Y,000 our state uni- 

 versity surely is not lacking in numbers. 

 Every year some of our medical students are 

 advised to attend the California summer 

 school, not only in the non-medical, but in the 

 medical subjects as well. We accept each 

 other's records without hesitation or question 

 and also encourage students who desire to do 

 so to go elsewhere. We have trusted each 

 other and the rewards of this trust have, I be- 

 lieve, been ours. The spirit of reciprocity pre- 

 vails. We Stanford men were not all " to the 

 manner born " but we are citizens of Cali- 

 fornia and as such have faithfully espoused the 

 best interests of our state university. More 

 than a score of us are alumni of California, 

 whose faculty also contains a number of Stan- 

 ford graduates. Besides, many members of the 

 faculties of the neighboring universities have 

 a common alma mater. Larger appropriations 

 and opportunities for California neither alarm 

 nor threaten us. If we have not decided to 

 merge the medical, law or engineering schools 

 or even our universities, that is no reason why 

 our motives should be impugned. Moreover, 

 to my knowledge the faculty of Stanford Uni- 

 versity has never even considered such a 

 fusion and the University of California must 

 in this matter speak for itself. The subject, 

 to be sure, has been considered in the admin- 

 istrative boards and may, I presume, be con- 

 sidered again, for I believe that the same good 

 will animates them. 



It is strange, indeed, how Mr. Pritchett can 

 call our universities " great " and our medical 

 schools " strong " if the alleged spirit prevails, 

 for that way, surely, only weakness lies. Mr. 

 Pritchett's characterization of the field of 

 modern medicine as " so narrow " is decidedly 

 enlightening. Other statements in Mr. 

 Pritchett's report call for comment but I shall 

 forbear. The future will be Mr. Pritchett's 

 and our sternest judge. I trust, however,^ that 

 a sense of justice will cause Mr. Pritchett to 

 give an explanation for his unqualified accu- 

 sation, and since the great usefulness and influ- 

 ence of the foundation must in time be seri- 

 ously jeopardized by such uncorrected errors, 

 I further trust that the board of trustees of 

 the foundation will disclaim responsibility for 

 so serious and so unjust a reflection upon the 

 good name of the two universities. 



" Those principles of peace and conciliation 

 which President Jordan has so eminently rep- 

 resented " are indeed being maintained be- 

 tween the two universities, and if I may 

 reciprocate Mr. Pritchett's wish, I hope that 

 the same principles of peace and conciliation 

 which Mr. Carnegie has so long and so ardently 

 espoused wiU more and more pervade the spirit 

 and temper of the verdicts of the Foundation 

 for the Advancement of Teaching. 



A. W. Meyee 



Palo Alto, California, 

 August 4, 1915 



SUCCESSFUL LONG-DISTANCE SHIPMENT OP CITRUS 

 POLLEN 



In connection with investigations in Japan 

 in the spring of 1915, Mr. Walter T. Swingle, 

 physiologist in charge of crop physiology and 

 breeding investigations. Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, found it desirable to make an attempt 

 to breed canker-resistant^ strains of grape- 

 fruits and tangelos by hybridizing with the 

 more resistant Japanese races of pumelo (Bun- 

 tan) and other late-ripening, large-fruited 

 citrous fruits commonly grovm in Japan. He 

 accordingly cabled for grapefruit and tangela 

 pollen. 



1 Hasse, Clara H., " Fseudomonas citri, the 

 Cause of Citrus Canker," Jour. Agric. Research, 

 Vol. 4, pp. 97-100, Pis. 9, 10, April, 1915. 



