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NEWS NOTES AND CURRENT COMMENT. 



Prof. De Alton Saunders, of the South Dakota Agricultural 

 College at Brookings, devoted the midwinter months to the collection 

 of marine and fresh-water ulgse in the gulf coast region of the 

 Southern States. 



During the next season Prof Aven Nelson, of the University of 

 Wyoming, proposes to collect extensively in the Yellowstone National 

 Park and the adjacent Forest Reserves. Orders are asked in advance 

 for the sets, which " are to be 20th century plants, with all that that 

 implies." Students and others interested in the Rocky Mountain 

 flora may address Prof Nelson at Laramie. 



Dr. Edwin B, Copeland was appointed in December, 1898, by 

 the trustees of the State Normal School at Chico, California, to take 

 charge of the instruction in botany in that institution. Dr. Copeland 

 took his bachelor's degree at Stanford University in 1895, and 

 received his doctor's degree from the University of Leipzig in 1896. 

 Later he accepted a position in the Department of Botany at 

 Indiana State University, but at the outbreak of war in 1898 

 resigned in order to enlist in the Wisconsin Volunteers. 



Dr. D. T. Macdougal, for six years in charge of physiology at 

 the University of Minnesota, has within a few weeks been appointed 

 Director of the Laboratories of the New York Botanical Gardens 

 in New York City. We also learn through a private letter that 

 Dr. John K. Small has been appointed Curator of the Herbarium 

 in the same institution, and that Dr. M. A. Howe has succeeded to 

 the curatorship of the Herbarium of Columbia University made 

 vacant by the resignation of Dr. Small. It is to l)e inferred, there- 

 fore, that the proposed transfer to the botanic garden of Columbia's 

 Herbarium of "over six hundred thousand specimens" and botanical 

 library has not taken place. 



