26 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
As has been reported each year,* the expressed intention 
of the founder of the Garden that the instruction of gar- 
den pupils should not be neglected, has received the atten- 
tion of the Board and the Director. One pupil, who would 
have completed his course in April last, was excused from 
further work in February and admitted to examination 
by the Garden Committee, that he might accept a desirable 
position, his certificate, however, being withheld until such 
time as he should have presented a thesis needed for the 
completion of his course. The vacancy created by his 
withdrawal was filled by the appointment of Mr. Ernest 
P. Field, a candidate nominated by the State Horticultural 
Society of Missouri; and with the beginning of the class 
year, in April last, Mr. Rudolph J. Mohr, of Omaha, Ne- 
braska, was admitted as a paying pupil, under the provis- 
ions made by the Board. It is expected that in March 
next two pupils who are now in the fourth year will com- 
plete their work and receive the Garden certificates; and in 
anticipation of this event, a ninth announcement concern- 
ing garden pupils, comparable with those already issued, 
was distributed to individuals and the horticultural press, 
in November last. The course of study provided for 
garden pupils is the same as that already announced in 
various volumes of the Garden Report,f with the excep- 
tion that this year one exercise per week in botanical geog- 
raphy has been added to the last trimester of the fourth 
year. The course, as now adopted, is indicated in the 
appended table. 
* See, especially, Rept. 1:37, 94. 8:25. 
t Rept. 8 : 30. 
