SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 33. 
admitted to examination in October, and awarded the 
certificate due on completion of the four years’ course. 
Three more pupils will have completed the course in 
* March, 1896, and in November last an announcement, sim- 
‘a ilar to those of previous years, was issued, stating that two 
: of the vacancies will be filled in the spring on the result of 
competitive examination, the third being reserved for a 
qualified nominee of the St. Louis Florists’ Club, in accord- 
ance with the action of the Board in establishing free 
scholarships.* 
THE SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 
During the college year 1894—5 I was assisted by Mr. C. 
H. Thompson as general Instructor, and Mr. O. L. Sim- 
mons as Instructor in cryptogamic botany, Mr. Thompson’s 
place being filled for the year 1895-6 by the appointment 
of Mr. W. H. Rush as general Instructor. Undergraduate 
classes were conducted in elementary morphology and 
organography (1)f, elementary anatomy and phanero- 
gamic botany (2), synoptical work with cryptogams (3), 
economic mycology (10-11), garden botany (12-13), and 
vegetable physiology (14). In the spring, a course of ten 
lectures on the structure and physiology of plants, by 
myself, and several courses in phanerogamic botany and 
pteridophytes, by Miss A. I. Mulford, were given to spe- 
cial students, at the Garden. In the autumn and winter 
Miss Mulford has continued her excellent work with special 
classes by giving at the Garden and in the public school 
buildings a number of teachers’ courses, adapted to the 
science requirements of the public schools, a direction in 
which I am especially desirous of having the Garden facil- 
ities utilized to the utmost. 
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* First Report, 95. 
+ The numbers in parenthesis refer to the numbers by which the 
i courses are designated in the last catalogue of Washington University, 
| and the Sixth Garden Report, pp. 24-5. 
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