

1901 } NEWS 143 
Joun W. HARSHBERGER; Executive Committee, GEORGE M. BERINGER, 
THOMAS MEEHAN, STEWARDSON BROWN, JAMES D. CRAWFORD, IDA A. 
KELLER. 
THE REPORT of the committee of the Society for Plant Morphology and 
Physiology on securing better reviews of botanical literature was presented 
at the recent meeting of the society at Baltimore. The results secured are 
of the greatest interest to all botanists. After correspondence with the editor 
and publisher of the Botandsches Centralblatt, a modification of this journal 
will be effected with the first number of the present year, and these changes 
are officially announced in the last number for 1900. Hereafter the Centra/- 
blat¢t proper will contain only reviews and the list of new literature, while the 
Bethefte will’contain only original articles, and will appear as heretofore at 
irregular intervals, These may be subscribed for separately; the price and 
size of the former will remain as at present, 1/28 per year. A committee of 
three from the society, Drs. Farlow, MacDougal, and Ganong, together with 
one botanist from the central states and one from the Pacific coast, to be 
_ named later, will be asked to nominate American editors, who will cooperate 
with the German editors, Drs. Uhlworm and Kohl. Inasmuch as the editors 
of the Centra/blatt have shown themselves so willing to take up the sugges- 
tions made by this committee it should now be a matter of pride, and it cer- 
tainly is a matter of self-interest as well, for American botanists to give the 
fullest support, financial and scientific, to this bibliographic journal. It 
should remain unique and become as perfect in its notices of literature as it 
is possible to make it. Separates, not titles merely, should still be sent to 
r. Uhlworm, Cassel. 
THE following action was taken by the employés of the Department of 
Agriculture in reference to the death of Mr. Thomas A. Williams: It is with 
feelings of profound sorrow and regret that we, the employés of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, learn that death has removed from among us our 
beloved companion and coworker, Thomas A. Williams, a classmate and inti- 
mate associate of many of our number. His broad knowledge of scientific 
matters, his keen appreciation of nature, his kind and forbearing disposition 
have endeared him to all. He was known to his associates as an indefatigable 
worker and investigator. 
Resolved, That in the death of Professor Thomas A. Williams, science and 
agriculture have suffered a great loss, and we, his associates, a dear friend, 
whose self-forgetfulness in his kindly consideration for the feelings of others 
and uniform cheerfulness, often under conditions of severe physical suffering, 
revealed a lovable character of the highest Christian type. The loss to the 
Division of Agrostology is irreparable. In the performance of his official 
duties he had proved himself an excellent executive and an organizer of 
unusual merit, and his relations with his associates in office were always such 
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