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We learn from the Stanford Alumnus that Dr. Edwin Bingham 

 Copeland, recently professor of botany in the West Virginia Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed instructor in botany in the Leland 

 Stanford Junior University. Dr. Copeland, who is now engaged 

 in research work at the University of Chicago, will begin his new 

 duties in September. 



The February number of the American Naturalist contains an 

 interesting illustrated article by Mr. Ralph E. Gibbs on " Phyl- 

 lospadix as a Beach-Builder." The fruit of this " eel-grass " of 

 the Pacific coast has a curious device for attachment by means of 

 which it anchors itself firmly to various species of the jointed 

 coralline seaweeds. 



A suggestive discussion of the affinities of certain anomalous 

 genera commonly referred to the dicotyledons, begun by H. L. 

 Lyon in a paper on the embryogeny of Nelumbo, published in the 

 Minnesota Botanical Studies, has been continued by D. H. Camp- 

 bell in the American Naturalist for January and by H. S. Conard 

 in Science of February 21. 



Publication 19 of the Botanical Society of America has recently 

 been distributed. It includes a report of the seventh annual meet- 

 ing held at Denver, August 27 and 28, 1901, and the annual list 

 of officers, members, associates and patrons. The associates who 

 were elected members at the last meeting were Hermann von 

 Schrenk and Albert Fred Woods. The following accepted 

 election as associates : Henry Chandler Cowles, David Griffiths, 

 Duncan Starr Johnson, Thomas Henry Kearney, William Ash- 

 brook Kellerman, George Thomas Moore, Roscoe Pound, Per 

 Axel Rydberg and Jared Gage Smith. 



In the announcement for the thirteenth season of the Biological 

 Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 

 located at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, the following items 

 of botanical interest are noted. Professor D. S. Johnson, of 

 Johns Hopkins University, is to be in charge of cryptogamic 

 botany; Nelson F. Davis, Sc. M., of Bucknell University, in 

 charge of bacteriology ; S. M. Coulter, of Washington University, 

 in charge of phanerogamic botany ; Roy S. Richardson, High 

 School, Brooklyn, in charge of nature study; Louise Brisbin 



