SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 39 
one candidate for the Master’s degree, and three for the 
Doctor’s degree, with botany as a major study. 
GARDEN PUPILS. 
The course in gardening and the teaching in it have re- 
mained unchanged through the past year. 
On the result of duly announced competitive examina- 
tion, the free scholarships reported a year ago* were 
awarded in March to Arno Nehrling of Gotha, Florida, 
and Eugene Smyth, of Topeka, Kansas. The latter ten- 
dered his resignation in July, to undertake preparation 
for college work, and the scholarship so vacated was then 
assigned to H. L. Ochs, of St. Louis, who had passed a 
satisfactory examination in the spring though he did not 
then win a scholarship. In November, Miss Eda A. 
Sutermeister, who for some four years has been engaged 
in practical landscape work which was held to be an ade- 
quate equivalent for a portion of the required manual work 
not done with her prior resident study, was admitted to 
examination and given the customary Garden certificate. 
THE GARDEN STAFF. 
No changes in the office force are to be reported, though 
the number of temporary assistants has been greater than 
in other recent years because of library work on the list of 
serials and the indexing already referred to, and of revisional 
work in the herbarium. 
SPECIAL TESTAMENTARY PROVISIONS. 
Three special events provided for by the will of Mr. 
Shaw have taken place in 1905, as follows: — 
The annual flower sermon was preached in Christ Church 
‘Cathedral, St. Louis, on the morning of May 14, by the 
Right Reverend Lewis Burton, Bishop of Lexington, 
Kentucky. 
* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 16: °7. 
