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MINOR NOTICES 

 Genetics —This is the title of a new journal published by the Princeton 

 University Press, whose initial number appeared in January 1916. The sub- 

 title is "A periodical record of investigations bearing on heredity and varia- 

 tion." The editorial board comprises W. E. Castle, E. G. Conklin, C. B. 

 Davenport, B. M. Davis, E. M. East, R. A. Emerson, H. S. Jennings, 

 T. H. Morgan, Raymond Pearl, and G. H. Shull, the last named being the 

 managing editor. Such an array of prominent geneticists insures a journal 

 of first order. It is to be issued bimonthly. An annual volume approxi- 

 mates 600 pages, the subscription price being $6.00. A most appropriate 

 introduction is made by the publication of a hitherto unpublished portrait 

 of Mendel, being a photographic copy of an oil painting hanging in the parlor 

 of the monastery at Brunn in which Mendel was for 1 5 years the abbot. The 

 three papers published are as follows: "Non-disjunction as proof of the chromo- 

 some theory of heredity," by Calvin B. Bridges; "The numerical results of 

 diverse systems of breeding," by H. S. Jennings; and "Hereditary anchylosis 

 of the proximal phalangeal joints (symphalangism)," by Harvey Cushing.— 

 J. M. C. 



Principles of plant culture.— The eighth edition of Goff's Principles of 

 plant culture, revised by Moore and Jones/ has just appeared. The first 

 edition was issued in 1897, with the statement that the book "is intended 

 especially for students who have had little or no previous instruction in botany." 

 The book has stood the test of use by many teachers and students for over 20 

 years. The titles of the chapters indicate the kind of information the book 

 offers: seed germination and the plantlet, the growing plant,' the root and the 

 soil, leaves and buds and flowers, the fruit and the seed, decline of growth and 

 the rest period, unfavorable temperature, unfavorable light and wind, unfavor- 

 able food supply, animal parasites, vegetable parasites and weeds, propagation, 

 plant breeding. With the growing interest in the rational handling of plants 

 for practical purposes, this little volume should meet a growing need.— J. M. C. 



Plant teratology.— Worsdell 2 has published the first volume of a work 

 intended to succeed Masters' well known Vegetable teratology, published by 



1 Go*f, E. S., The principles of plant culture. 8th ed. Revised by E. G. 

 Moore and L. R. Jones. 8vo. pp. xxiii-HQS- New York: Macmillan. 1916. 



1 Worsdell, W. C.,The principles of plant teratology. Vol. I. 8vo. pp. xxiv-f- 

 270. pis. 25. figs. 60. London: Ray Society. 19 15. 



