22 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



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sists, the Trustees, after careful consideration, have decided 

 that the time has now arrived for availing themselves of the 

 authorization given for augmenting means and appliances 



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lines of botany, and have established the post of plant physi- 



ologist at the Garden. 



Moore 



has been called by the Trustees, and he has been elected by 

 the Directors of Washington University to a newly estab- 

 lished professorship of plant physiology and applied botany 

 in the School of Botany. In connection w T ith this professor- 

 shin two research fellowships in botanv have been established 



held bv Mr 



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Catalogu 



erates the following regular courses now offered by the School 

 of Botany in addition to special work suited to the individual 

 needs of advanced students who, when possible, are given 

 such work in preference to less elastic courses : 



Courses of Instruction. — A. Primarily for undergraduates: 



I, 2. General Botany.— 2a, Field Ecology. —3, 4. Plant Physiology. 

 5. Bacteriological Methods. — 6. Histological Methods. —B. For un- 

 dergraduates and graduates: 7. Bacteriology. — 9. Morphology and 

 Taxonomy of Fungi. — 10. Morphology and Taxonomy of Algae. 



II. Morphology and Taxonomy of Bryophytes. — 12. Morphology and 

 Taxonomy of Pteridophytes. — 13. Morphology and Taxonomy of 

 Spermatophytes. — 16. Plant Ecology. —18. Advanced Physiology. 

 19. Water and Sewage Purification. 



Research under supervision. — Taxonomy. — Applied Mycol- 

 ogy. — Physiology. 



Independent Research, in any field for which the necessary 



equipment is available, is open to persons qualified by training and 

 experience to carry it on without instruction. To such advanced in- 

 vestigators the utmost freedom is allowed, and all the facilities of the 

 School of Botany and the Botanical Garden are placed at their dis- 

 posal free of expense, unless their work is done in candidacy for a 

 degree, in which case the prescribed fees are chargeable. 



The electives offered to undergraduates and jointly to 

 undergraduate and graduate students, are intended in a gen- 

 eral way to indicate the breadth of botanical preparation ex- 



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