NEWS. ; 
Dr. E. B. COPELAND, assistant professor of botany in the University of 
West Virginia, has been advanced to a professorship. 
Dr. HuGo ZvuKAL, professor of plant pathology in the Hochschule fir 
Bodencultur in Vienna, died on February 15. (Bot. Cent.) 
THE OFFICERS of the Botanical Society of America for I1g00-I are 
follows: President, B. D. Halsted; Vice President, R. A. Harper; Zreasurer, 
C. A. Hollick; Secretary, G. F. Atkinson; Councillors, B. D. Halsted, R. A. 
Harper, C. A. Hollick, G. F. Atkinson, B. L. Robinson, C. E. Bessey, and 
F. V. Coville; Custodian of Library, W. Trelease. 
TuE Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology has just completed : 
an extensive series of experiments at Halstead, Kan., in connection 
work on the development of new forms of cereals by breeding. The wor 
was planned by Mr. M. A. Carleton, but owing to his absence abroad it was 
carried on by Mr. D. B. Swingle, a graduate of the Agricultural College a 
Manhattan, Kan. 
Wo. J. Fox, of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, has had the § 
fortune to discover in the library of the academy a copy of that 
work of Rafinesque entitled Western Minerva, or American Annals of ee 
edge and Literature. Rafinesque proposed to publish a journal pie 
Science of August 10, 1900, It isa small quarto and contains vit oo 
and is of interest to botanists in that it contains new names for plants 
have not yet been noted in Synonymy. It is an interesting quel - 
a work suppressed by the printer, and presumably never distributed, : 
counted as a publication. In the copy discovered by Mr. Fox some © 
Pages are orginal proof sheets, being printed on one side only, © 
i jon of 
ee hot come within the definition of a publication when the ee : 
ority is concerned. Only four pages are given to botany, and Mr. F pe 
very fully their contents, 
