26 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
The instrumental, library and herbarium equipment of 
the School of Botany and the Garden are or can easily be 
made ample for the proper teaching of these electives. 
All of the courses capable of being taught in the laboratory 
are so taught, supplemented by necessary lectures and 
reading, and the few lecture courses offered are illustrated 
whenever possible by specimens of plants and their 
products. 
In addition to these undergraduate studies, post-graduate 
work is planned to suit the needs of candidates for advanced 
degrees, and one applicant for the Doctor’s degree is taking 
such work through the present year. 
Besides the classes already mentioned, two advanced 
students have been more or less steadily occupied in her- 
barium work at the Garden through the year, several 
visiting botanists have made protracted use of the herbarium 
and library, and the Garden representatives of several 
difficult genera of plants have passed through the hands of 
specialists engaged in the revision of these groups; and it 
is intended that under needful restrictions all of the facili- 
ties of the Garden shall always be available for the use of 
any suitably prepared person engaged in botanical work. 
Very respectfully, 
WiLuiaM TRELEASE, 
Director. 
January 9, 1895. 
