18 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
publications, of which 91 are bought and 887, issued by 
688 institutions, are presented.* 
As in previous years, a number of visiting botanists and 
resident students have made serious use of the facilities of 
the Garden, and transcripts from the library have been made 
extensively and material for investigation has been loaned 
freely to responsible persons not able to come to St. Louis. 
By permission of the Board, the Director of the Garden 
spent the months of June and July in a study of the botany 
of the Alaskan coast region and the islands of Bering 
Sea, as a member of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, the 
scientific results of which will no doubt be published in 
suitable form after the large amount of material collected 
has been subjected to critical study. 
Approximately the same amount of time as in preceding 
years has been given to research work by the office staff. 
The results of some of this work appear in the eleventh 
Report, and other papers have been published elsewhere or 
will be published from the Garden later. 
The instruction of Garden pupils has been carried on 
during the year on the lines stated in my last report.f Two 
pupils, Walter Nehrling and Walter Retzer, having com- 
_plied with the requirements, were awarded certificates in 
March last. The scholarships freed by their graduation 
were awarded respectively on the result of competitive 
examination and by nomination of the St. Louis Florists’ 
Club, to Bruno Nehrling, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 
Rudolph J. Mohr, who had been a paying pupil for the year 
preceding. In August, Ernest P. Field, who held a 
scholarship on the nomination of the Missouri Horticultural 
Society, withdrew from the Garden, and the Secretary of 
the Horticultural Society designated as his successor Robert 
Meyer, of St. Louis, who had been in the employ of the 
Garden for some time, and to whom a ae was 
awarded in October. 
* Report. 3:16. 10:25, 91. + Report. 10: 26. 
