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of many prominent students of genetics toward it and the methods it advo- 
cates. : 
The second magazine which is devoted specifically to evolution and related 
subjects is the Archiv fiir Rassen- und Gesellschafts-Biologie, edited and pub- 
lished in Miinchen by Dr. A. PLoetz, assisted by Dr. L. PLATE and several 
others. This magazine was established in 1904, just at the time when interest 
in evolution was being revived by the general introduction of the new methods. 
It is not wholly occupied with the results of experimentation, but contains 
besides these many philosophical and more or less academic discussions, which 
give it the flavor of transition from the older evolutionary literature of the 
post-Darwinian writers to the new type of literature introduced and exempli- 
fied by the work of DE Vries and MENDEL. 
In 1908 a new monthly German magazine entitled Zeitschrift fiir I nduk- 
tive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre was established in Berlin under the 
editorship of Dr. E. Baur, assisted by Drs. CorRENS, HECKER, STEINMANN, 
and WETTSTEIN. This magazine is at the present time the most valuable 
of all similar journals, as it offers in excellent form a large volume of original 
matter, adequate abstracts from a large proportion of the papers on the same 
' subjects published in other journals, and finally gives a very complete classi- 
fied list of new literature dealing with the same subjects. This journal 1s 
absolutely indispensable to all who wish to investigate problems of heredity, . 
methods of dealing with biological data. No true scientist can fail to depre 
cate the introduction of propagandism and personal enmity into science. It 
may be expected that the publication of such a journal will act as a boomerang; 
and will do the cause of Mendelian investigation a distinct injury. The a 
should be simply to arrive at the truth and not to adopt and establish 2 creed 
to be forced upon others who cannot be convinced of the truth by the Lacie 
presented. Like Biometrika, the Mendel Journal has no regular periodicity; 
but its appearance is promised whenever sufficient material is at . . 
America the demand for journals dealing with genetics has broush 
4 most satisfactory response from the American Naturalist, which about *¥° 
