BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF BOTANY 257 



of a number of species new to science, several of which have been 

 named in honor of their discoverer. This material has been submitted 

 to Professor Chas. H. Peck, so it is authoritativel}^ named. 



In 1906 a list of this collection was published by the St. Louis 

 Academy of Science."' The specimens are mostly in Dr. Glatfelter's 

 private herbarium. Collecting has also been done in Pennsylvania in 

 1899, 1905 and 1900, and somewhat in other states. The herbaceous 

 herbarium has been increased by exchanges, so that it numbers over 

 •4,000 species. Dr. Glatfelter is a member of the local botanical so- 

 cieties and is still collecting the fleshy fungi, to which he is giving most 

 of his attention. 



The more recent botanical workers of St. Louis we find grouped 

 into two distinct bodies; the staif of the Shaw School of Botany, and of 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the investigators of the Mississippi 

 Valley Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 In the former group, which has existed for the longer time, the follow- 

 ing persons should be mentioned: Dr. William Trelease, director of 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden since the death of Mr. Shaw, and also 

 professor of botany in the Shaw School of Botany. Besides adminis- 

 tering the affairs of these two institutions, and bringing them to their 

 present development and efficiency, he has published many scientific 

 papers; the earliest ones were concerned with fungi and various plant 

 diseases; then the pollination of flowers was taken up; and of late years 

 his work has been in the systematic revision of certain groups, such as 

 the genera Acer, Rumex, Yucca, etc. Under his management the bo- 

 tanical garden has issued eighteen annual reports of scientific material, 

 which have given that institution a name for scientific research, al- 

 though it can hardly even yet be said to have fairly emerged from the 

 preparatory stage of its development. Associated very closely with 

 Doctor Trelease since 1891: is Mr. H. C. Irish, who has had general 

 charge of the grounds, greenhouses and outdoor planting. Mr. Irish 

 has published papers on horticultural subjects, including a scientific 

 revision of the genus Capsicum, and of the " garden bean," and has 

 in preparation another extensive paper along similar lines. Mr. C. H. 

 Thompson has been connected with the garden for a number of years, 

 and is engaged also upon scientific investigations. Dr. J. A. Harris, 

 librarian of the garden, has published a number of scientific papers, 

 and is engaged upon others, in the preparation of which the extensive 

 and excellent library facilities of the garden are being fully employed. 

 Others who have been connected with the garden staff, and who are now 

 well known scientifically, are Dr. L. H. Pammel, Dr. H. J. Webber and 



=" Glatfelter, N. M., " Preliminary List of Higher Fungi Collected in the 

 Vicinity of St. Louis, Mo., from 1898 to 1905," Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 

 16: 33-94, 1906. 



VOL. LXXIV. — 18. 



