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TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 23 
Rumbold and Messrs. H. W. Anderson, C, O. Chambers, 
S. M. MeMurran and Jacob Schramm. 
Under the guidance of Professor Moore, these five Fellows, 
the University Teaching Fellow, and three other graduate 
students are giving a considerable part or all of their time 
to advanced study and investigation, either in botany alone 
or with some cognate subject as a minor in compliance with 
the rules under which higher degrees are conferred by the 
University. One other graduate, not a candidate for a 
degree, is also doing advanced work in the Garden laboratory. 
Such time as could be spared from other and necessary 
duties has been given by myself, Professor Moore and Dr. 
Gates to original work, some of the results of which have 
been published. 
As in earlier years, the facilities of the Garden have been 
made accessible to visitors desiring to use them; and during 
the year just closed 15,308 herbarium specimens have been 
loaned to 21 persons; and 100 books or pamphlets, to 24 
persons not living in St. Louis, in addition to 298 loaned 
to 56 residents of the city. Information, transcripts from 
the library, etc., have also been given to many inquirers, 
through an extensive corespondence. The most important 
work done at the Garden this year by a person not con- 
nected with its own staff was a series of physical, chemical 
and bacteriological examinations of the milk supply of the 
poorer parts of the city, with special reference to its influence 
on the health of little children, made for the School of 
Social Economy, under the auspices of the Russell Sage 
Foundation, by Miss Elizabeth Moore. 
THE GARDEN STAFF. 
No noteworthy changes have been made in the regular 
staff of library, herbarium and garden, except that because 
of advancing age Mr. John Bannes, long acting as foreman 
of the grounds, has been relieved of general responsibility— 
though continuing his work with the title of foreman emer- 
itus,—the active foremanship being assumed by Mr. Otto 
