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pected of successful candidates for the Master's degree in bot- 

 any; while the research courses indicate the field in which 



may 



Under 



from 



From 



of the current college year, Mr. C. D. Learn, as Teaching 

 Fellow in Botany, has continued the assistant's work per- 

 formed last year by Mr. Nehrling. The undergraduate en- 

 rollment for the first term of 1909-10 was: Biology, eight, 

 Botany 1, twenty ; Botany 3, seven ; Botany 5, five — a total 

 of forty students, of whom the eight first noted give equal 

 time to botany and zoology and the others take one full 



botanical course each. 



On the completion of the new building at the Garden, one 

 three-story pavilion, about fifty feet square, was reserved for 

 use in connection with the graduate needs of the School of 

 Botany and independent research, and an excellent equip- 

 ment has been provided for work in bacteriology and other 

 branches of mycology, phycology, and certain lines of plant 

 physiology. In these directions research work, under the 

 mmediate direction of Professor Moore, is being carried out 



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advanced 



plicant for the Master's degree is giving a part of his time 

 to less advanced graduate study. 



GARDEN PUPILS. 



In March, Mr. Arno II. Nehrling and Mr. Henry Ochs, 

 who had completed the prescribed course of study and 



Commit 



itomary 



Ilerta A. Toeppen, who had also completed the required 



examination 



similar 



certificate. On the results of competitive examina- 

 tion, duly announced, the scholarships released by Mr. Nehr- 

 ling and Mr. Ochs were awarded to Mr. Clark Craig, of Rush 

 Lake, Wisconsin, and Mr. Carl Haltenhoff, of Gotha, Florida. 

 In June Mr. Raymond B. Wilcox, for family reasons, gave 

 up the scholarship which he had held since 1907, and it 

 was Hven to Mr. Homer E. Reed, of Louisiana, Missouri, 



