16 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



made the subject of study through the season by Mr. 

 Dewart ; and it is proposed to continue the work through 

 1893 and as much longer as may be necessary. With the 

 sanction and aid of the Board, I was enabled to spend the 

 greater part of the spring months in Texas, Arizona, and 

 California, in a study of the pollination of the Yuccas, and 

 a paper embodying the results of my observations will 

 appear in the Fourth Report of the Garden. 



In order to obtain facilities not in its possession for the 

 study of marine botany, and with a view to promoting such 

 study, the Board this year authorized the Director to 

 subscribe for the present $100.00 annually, for a botan- 

 ical research room in the Marine Biological Laboratory at 

 Wood's Holl, Mass., on condition that it should be actually 

 used each year for botanical work. It is not probable that 

 a member of the Garden staff can regularly make use of 

 the facilities secured in this way, and when this cannot be 

 done the Director is desirous of having the room used by 

 some competent botanist not connected with the Garden, 

 and invites correspondence early in each year from pro- 

 fessors or others who may wish to study our marine flora. 

 The only conditions imposed in such allotment of the 

 room are that it shall be used exclusively for botanical 

 work, and that in the publication of any results obtained 

 the Garden shall receive credit for the facilities offered ; 

 but the Director would wish, if good reason to the contrary 

 does not exist, to have the results of any important research 

 published in the reports of the Garden. During the season 

 of 1892, the room was used by Mr. M. A. Brannon, who 

 was occupied with a study of Grinnellia Americana. 



In March last three vacancies among the Garden pupils 

 were filled, in accordance with an announcement issued in 

 the preceding November. One of the scholarships was 

 given to a nominee of the St. Louis Florists' Club, and the 

 other two were awarded on the results of competitive exam- 

 ination. The young men who received these scholarships 

 have applied themselves to their work through the year with 



