NOTES AND COMMENT 



In April of the present year the British Vegetation Committee was 

 dissolved and provision was made for the continuation and enlargement 

 of its work by the formation of the British Ecological Society, under 

 the presidency of Prof. A. G. Tansley. The activities of the commit- 

 tee have been made well known through the publication of Types of 

 British Vegetation and numerous scattered papers, and much may be 

 expected from the newly organized society. One of its earliest steps is 

 the inauguration of a quarterly publication. The Journal of Ecology, 

 which is to be edited by Prof. Frank Cavers and published by the Cam- 

 bridge University Press. The Journal is to be devoted to short articles 

 of general interest and to reviews of ecological literature, and will not 

 undertake the publication of lengthy special papers. 



It is gratifying to note that the projectors of the Journal do not plan 

 to devote it solely to the broad marshes of descriptive ecology and the 

 seolian sands of ecological classification and nomenclature, but aim to 

 embrace in its scope geography, geology, meteorology, climatology, 

 plant phj'siology and anatomy, in so far as these subjects are relevant 

 to ecological problems. 



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