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The article reports on nationalism in United States. There are scores of new States in Asia and Africa that are trying to set up free societies. It is a "new birth of freedom" on a grand scale. It is in fact freedom's greatest test, for it involves the older free regimes of Europe and the United States. If truth counts over charity, then one must point out that the new States will fail, if not all, then all but a few. Some are already succumbing to the initial perils of liberty that the last paper of the Federalist warned Americans against: "anarchy, civil war, a perpetual alienation of the States from each other, and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagogue." The real wonder is in believing that national unity could ever arise in freedom among the many units that nowadays arrogate to themselves the name of nation. They are nations only to the map maker. Many are areas marked off only for colonial administrative convenience; some have dozens, even hundreds, of languages, several antagonistic religions; a still uncounted welter of tribes living in mutual ignorance or traditional war; and above all there stands the great gulf between the village primitive and the urban modern.

The article provides an overview of the study "Versuch einer Uebersicht der siphonogamen Polsterpflanzen," by H. Hauri and C. Schröter published in the 1914 issue of "Engler's Botanische Jahrbuch." In this article, a list of the known phanerogamic cushion plants and their general characteristics are presented. An analysis of the plants' geographical distribution revealed that half of the species grow in South America and New Zealand. In Europe and Asia, these plants are confined to the mountains.

This article presents a study regarding the forests of the western portion of the Caucasus range. The very fertile stretch of land of Colchis lies on the eastern shores of the Black Sea. The parts of Asia and Europe which lie around the high ridge of the Caucasus are mostly dry grasslands and dry deserts. The southwestern part is thickly wooded all over and the water-laden southerly winds which beat against the high walls of the Caucasus bring great quantities of atmospheric moisture and rain to Colchis.

Studies the life history and population fluctuations of Lymnaea truncatula, the snail vector of fascioliasis in Europe and Asia. Description of the movement and dispersal of the snail; Behavior of the snail in low temperature.