1910] CURRENT LITERATURE 315 
years ago, under the editorship of Dr. J. McK. Carre tt, adopted as a general 
policy a specialization upon evolutionary topics. The American Society of 
Naturalists chose for itself the same field, and the American Naturalist is in 
a certain sense the organ of that society. 
The last arrival in the field is the new magazine issued by the American 
Breeders’ Association, and known as the American Breeders’ Magazine, pub- 
lished in Washington under the editorship of the secretary of the Association, 
M. Hays, assisted by the secretaries of the Plant and Animal Sections, 
N. E. HANSEN and H. W. Mumrorp. The first issue of this magazine has just 
appeared, and gives every evidence of its intention to take a dignified place 
among economic journals, and a modest and unassuming place among scien- 
tific magazines, thus correctly representing the unique position of the Asso- 
ciation whose organ it is. The American Breeders’ Magazine is being issued 
as a quarterly, but it is hoped by those who have it in charge that it may soon 
be changed to a monthly magazine. The opening number presents as a 
frontispiece a portrait of CHARLES DARWIN, and also gives portraits of GREGOR 
ENDEL and Amos CRUIKSHANK, the latter the originator of the shorthorn 
cattle, and said to be the first to utilize fully the discovery of a mutation 
in the establishing of an important economic breed. Besides wed cad 
graphical sketches of these three men, this first issue presents p 
“Increasing protein or fat in corn,” by L. H. Smita; “New methods of iat 
breeding,” by Grorce W. Ottver; “The army horse,” by CarLos GUER- 
RERO; “Imperfection of dominance,” by C. B. DAVENPORT; “Poultry-breed- 
ing in South Australia,’ by D. F. Lowrey; and several articles on the breeding 
of deer and other wild animals by D. E. LANce and other members of the 
committee on breeding wild animals. As it is the plan of the American 
Breeders’ Association to continue the publication of its Year Book, the issue 
of this magazine will make it even more important that all those who are 
engaged in investigation or who are interested in matters involving genetics 
should Hoes members of the Association and thus secure its publications.— 
Gro. H. SHULt. 
Respiration.—PaLLADIN’ has tested the effect of several poisons on the 
CO, output from living plant organs and from similar tissues that have been 
killed by freezing 0 several hours. He finds that 0.09 per cent quinine 
hydrogen chlorid more than triples ‘the CO, output from living stem tips 
of Vicia Faba, aks it does not affect the killed ones; 0.05 per cent was far 
less effective on the living tissue and indifferent in the dead; and 1.0 per cent 
tripled the product from the living and reduced it markedly in the dead tissue. 
In the living bulbs of Gladiolus Lemonia, 8 cc. of ether per 7.5 liters of air 
IN, W., Ueber die Wirkung von Giften auf die Atmung lebender und 
sete Picci sowie auf Atmungenzyme. Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 47:431-46r. 
