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TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 21 
GRADUATE INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH. 
Under the provisions for advanced instruction and 
research noted in the last two reports’, five holders of 
research fellowships have been occupied at the Garden with 
problems of scientific or economic interest, under the guid- 
ance of Professor Moore. 
At the last Commencement of Washington University 
the Master’s degree, in botany, was conferred on Miss 
Frances 8. Pickrell, Miss Mildred W. Spargo, Mr. P. L. 
Gainey, Mr. S. M. McMurran, and Mr. W. W. Ohlweiler; 
and the Doctor’s degree, in botany, on Miss Caroline 
Rumbold. 
There are now registered in candidacy for the Doctor’s 
degree, with botany as a major study, Miss Mildred Spargo 
and Messrs. C. O. Chambers, W. H. Emig, L. O. Kunkel, 
W. W. Ohlweiler and Jacob Schramm, and for the Master’s 
degree in botany, Messrs. G. L. Peltier and M. D. Renken- 
berger. One other candidate for the Doctor’s degree takes 
botany as a minor study, and three graduates, not candidates 
for a degree, are doing advanced work in botany. 
The Rufus J. Lackland Research Fellowships have been 
awarded for the year 1911-12 to Miss Mildred Spargo and 
Messrs. C. O. Chambers, W. H. Emig, L. O. Kunkel and 
Jacob Schramm, of whom Mr. Chambers and Mr. Schramm 
held fellowships last year. Because of the sustained demand 
for trained botanists—particularly in the fields of applied 
physiology and mycology—those who have secured such 
training promptly find remunerative and responsible employ- 
ment. Of the Fellows of last year, Dr. Rumbold, Mr. 
McMurran, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Gainey passed to 
responsible positions on leaving St. Louis, as did Miss Hay- 
den and Mr. Arzberger the year before; and with the single 
exception of Miss Hayden, who is a college teacher of botany, 
they are giving nearly or quite all of their time to botanical 
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