MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 35 
search Fellowships. It should be noted that the purpose of 
these fellowships is to encourage young men and women of 
ability, graduates of colleges and universities, and trained in 
science, to enter upon investigation work in physiological and 
other phases of botany. The Fellows may be called upon 
to assist to some extent in both instruction and departmental 
research. With a change of administration, in 1912, Dr. 
__B. M. Duggar was appointed Professor of Plant Physiology, 
to staagg his time to research and to the direction of graduate 
work. 
While the laboratories are arranged for any phase of 
botanical study, special attention is being given to the re- 
quirements of both physiology and taxonomy in their 
broadest relations (see special announcement of the Shaw 
School of Botany). The appointment of Dr. J. M. Green- 
man as Curator of the Herbarium and Associate Professor 
of Botany (noted in the previous number of the BULLETIN), 
and the more recent designation of Dr. E. A. Burt as Mycol- 
ogist and Librarian, make possible the rapid development of 
the taxonomic side of the work. 
The Laboratories and -the Equipment.—In the building 
devoted to research and graduate instruction the first floor is 
Shi aes by the office and lecture room. On the second floor 
are found a staff research laboratory, a balance room, and a 
large conference room which serves at present as headquarters 
for study and microscopic work of twelve graduate students 
—likewise as Seminar room. The third floor is given up to 
general experimental laboratory work, being made up of 
two smal] research rooms and one large laboratory. A spa- 
cious basement is used for storage and rougher phases of the 
work. In the pee) description no reference has been 
made to the herbarium, this having been treated at length in 
the last Buttery. 
The equipment of the laboratories proper was begun in 
1909 and has since been materially strengthened. Besides 
microscopes, microtomes, — bath, and other apparatus 
required in almost any p. of botanical work, there is a 
complete bacteriological equipment. This includes transfer 
rooms with steam connections for dust precipitation, one up- 
right and one large Kny-Scheerer horizontal autoclav 
steam sterilizers, dry ovens, incubators, ice chest, ete. The 
equipment for special physiological study includes further 
a spectroscopic outfit, photo-micrographic outfit, instruments 
for the measurement of environmental conditions, a large 
