SCIENCE 



Feidat, July 4, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 A Flea for Closer Interrelations m Our 

 Work: Pbofessoe L. E. Jones 1 



Beport of the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature: Dr. C. W. Stiles 6 



Appropriations for the University of Illinois 19 



Scientifio Notes and News 20 



University and Educational News 23 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Some Facts concerning Mendelism: Pro- 

 PESSOK T. H. McHatton. The Food of 

 Plants: Dr. N. Conser. A Good Soil 

 Tube: Dr. Charles F. Shaw. Lee's "In- 

 troduction to Botany": Professor W. P. 

 Ganong. The Leonhard Euler Society: 

 Professor Arnold Emch 24 



Scientifio BooTcs: — 



Johnson's Fixity de la Cote Atlantique de 

 I'Amerique du Nord: Dr. John M. Clarke. 

 Mathematik f. Biologen und Chemiker: 

 Professor H. L. Eietz. Rutherford on 

 Sadioactive Substances: Professor E. A. 

 Mlllikan 26 



Scientific Journals and Articles 30 



Special Articles: — 



Accessory Chromosomes in the Pig: Db. J. 

 E. Wodsedalek. The Effect of External 



upon the Cell : Dr. C. F. Homes . . 30 



Section G of the American Association and 

 Botanists of the Central States: Professor 

 Henry C. Cowles 32 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 reTiew should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



A PLEA FOE CLOSES INTEEBELATIONS 

 IN OUB WOBK^ 



It is the plan of our secretary to depart 

 from the usual symposium idea this after- 

 noon. Instead of selecting a single topic 

 upon the various aspects of which in turn 

 our attention is to be focused, he has asked 

 to have addresses on different topics, evi- 

 dently with the idea that we may be led to 

 realize more fully the diversity of interests 

 now encompassed in Section G. 



This at once suggests the problem which 

 has been formulating more clearly each 

 year in the field where my own chief inter- 

 ests lie, that of plant pathology. Most of 

 the work in this field, at least so far as it 

 presents the problem, is of two easily de- 

 finable types, which, while in some ways 

 widely different, nevertheless, have much 

 in common. These are, first, the training 

 of graduate students for professional work 

 as phytopathologists, second, the direction 

 of research work supported by public 

 funds, either state or national. Outside of 

 these two fields, we have only the limited 

 activities represented, on the one hand, by 

 undergraduate teaching, and, on the other 

 hand, by research privately supported. I 



' The paper as above published is a combination 

 of two symposium papers read by the author at 

 the recent Cleveland meetings, as follows: (1) 

 ' ' A Plea for Closer Interrelations in our Work. ' ' 

 Eead at the Botanical Symposium, Section G, 

 December 31, 1912. (2) "Some International 

 Aspects of Phytopathological Problems. ' ' Eead 

 at the Symposium of the American Phytopatholog- 

 ical Society, January 2, 1913. The other papers 

 read at this Symposium are being published in 

 Phytopathology. In order to make the theme con- 

 tinuous, the second paper has been abridged and 

 modified somewhat, but without essential change 

 of idea. 



