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Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. 1, No. 3 
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. Naturalist, 1 :16) at Sandusky, Erie County. In a 
package of interesting plants sent to the State Herbarium recently 
by Mr. Otto Hacker, tine 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, 6 to geology, 3 to 
meteorology, and 2 to anthropology. The following are the officers 
for the coming year: President, August I). Selby, Wooster; 1st 
Vice Pres., Rev. H. Herzer, Marietta; 2nd Vice Pres , Mrs. W. A. 
Kellennan,' 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. AVebster, Wooster; H. C. 
Beardslee, Cleveland; AV. R. Lazenby, Columbus; publication com- 
mittee, F. M. AVebster, Wooster; John H. Schaffner, Columbus; L- t 
H. McFadden, AVesterville ; Librarian, AV. 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 the 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 
journal and much better for purposes of citation. 
J. H. S. 
