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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



THE HENRY SHAW SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 



The teaching staff and electives offered remain as reported 

 a year since * The enrollment for the first term of 1906-7 

 was as follows : — 



"Biology 1," 14; "Botany 1," 5; "Botany 3," 4; 

 "Botany 9," 3— a total of twenty-six students, of whom 

 the fourteen first noted give about equal time to botany and 

 zoology, the others taking one full botanical course each. 



At the 1906 Commencement of Washington University 

 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred on Mr. 

 George G. Hedgcock and Mr. Perley Spaulding, whose 

 major work was in the field of botany, and whose theses form 

 part of the Seventeenth Report of the Garden. There are 

 now enrolled at the University one candidate for the Mas- 

 ter's degree and one for the Doctor's degree, with botany 

 as a major study. 



GARDEN PUPILS. 



No changes have been made in the course of instruction 

 in gardening, or in the teaching staff, and the pupils re- 

 main as last year, except that in July Mr. William A. Federer, 

 who had held a scholarship since April 1, 1904, left the Gar- 

 den to accept a position in an engraving establishment. 



THE GARDEN STAFF. 



The only changes in the office force to be reported are the 

 engagement of Professor J. W. Blankinship in the latter 

 part of the year, as Herbarium Assistant, to take the place 

 vacated by the resignation of Mr. A. G. Johnson, who, after 

 three years of very efficient service, returned to his studies 

 and duties at the South Dakota Agricultural College; and 

 the return of Miss N. L. Harris to her studies at the Univer- 



* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 17 : 38. 



