26 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
a committee of the Engelmann Botanical Club, presented 
a comprehensive working plan for securing the desired end. 
The award of premiums at a flower show was again in- 
trusted to the St. Louis Florists’ Club, and the awards 
were made at an exhibition held under the auspices of the 
Club in the Masonic Temple, from November 13 to 15 
inclusive. 
THE SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 
Essentially no changes were made in the character and 
scope of the undergraduate botanical work at Washington 
University during the year just closed, and reference may 
be made to my last report * for a tabulation of the electives 
offered. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was con- 
ferred in June on one candidate, Mr. Herbert J. Webber, 
for work in botany, conformed to the requirements of the 
University. Dr. Webber’s thesis, entitled Spermatogenesis 
and fecundation of Zamia, has recently been published as 
Bulletin No. 2 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
In the early part of the year, Mr. Herbert F. Roberts, 
Instructor in Phanerogamic Botany, resigned his position 
to fill the chair of botany at the Kansas Agricultural Col- 
lege, and Mr. Samuel Monds Coulter was shortly afterward 
appointed to the Instructorship. 
Though no special effort was made to provide for popu- 
lar botanical instruction, a class of ten ladies, occupied 
with a study of the commoner cultivated plants and weeds, 
was met at the Garden by Miss Ellen Clark of the Mary 
Institute, on Saturdays during the month of July, and a 
gratifying feature of the year has been the increasing 
number of teachers in the public schools who have brought 
_ their classes to the Garden for open-air study through the 
school year. 
Very respectfully, 
WILuiaAM TRELFASE, 
Director. 
* Report Mo. Bot. Garden. 123 19. 
