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Territory, Nebraska and Texas" may be said to be out of place in 

 Ohio. Yet Mr. R. F. Griggs found it (a single plant) in the season of 

 1900 (cf. O. S. U. Natukalist, 1:16) at Sandusky, Erie County. In a 

 package of interesting plants sent to the State Herbarium recently 

 by Mr. Otto Hacker, fine herbarium specimens of this conspicuous 

 species were furnished. Mr. Hacker says that he observed it near 

 Painesville (Lake County) six or seven years ago by railway tracks, 

 where it is still flourishing. 



Lotus corniculatus — This European Lotus, with such com- 

 mon names as Bird's foot, Trefoil, Ground Honeysuckle, Bloom-fell, 

 Crowtoes, Cat's-clover, and Sheepfoot, was collected at Painesville 

 by Mr. Otto Hacker in nursery grounds. This is the second time 

 this waif has been recorded for Ohio, the first case being reported 

 by Mr. Ricksecker, of Oberlin 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



Prof. Thomas A. Williams, editor-in-chief of the Asa Gray 

 Bulletin and assistant chief of the Division of Agrostology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, died on the morning of Dec. 23, 1900. 



At the 10th annual meeting of the Ohio State Academy of 

 Science, held at Columbus, on December 26 and 27, thirty-one papers 

 were read — 12 pertaining to botany, 8 to zoology, tt to geology, 3 to 

 meteorology, and 2 to anthropology. The following are the officers 

 for the coming year: President, August D. Selby, Wooster; 1st 

 Vice Pres., Rev. H. Herzer, Marietta; 2nd Vice Pres , Mrs. W. A. 

 Kellerman, Columbus; Secretary, E. L. Moseley, Sandusky; Treas- 

 urer, Herbert Osborn, Columbus; members of executive committee 

 besides the president, secretary and treasurer, Thos. Bonser, Carey; 

 Lynds Jones, Oberlin; trustees, F. M. Webster, Wooster; H. C. 

 Beardslee, Cleveland; W. R. Lazenby, Columbus; publication com- 

 mittee, F. M. Webster, Wooster; John H. Schaffner, Columbus; L- 

 H. McFadden, Westerville; Librarian, W. C. Mills, Columbus. 



Since some criticism has been made, both at home and abroad, 



on the name of The O. S. U. Naturalist, it has been thought best 



to make a slight change by dropping tlie words. State University. 



Although a change in name is unfortunate it will not be very serious 



at the present time and hereafter the name will be The Ohio 



Naturalist, which is perhaps more descriptive of the scope of the 



iournal and much better for purposes of citation. 



J. H. S. 



