60 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Dr. Wm. Trelease, Professor elect of Botany in the Uni- 
versity of Illinois, and former Director of the Missouri Botan- 
ical Garden, Dr. H. J. Webber, Director of the Graduate 
School of Agriculture at Riverside, California, Dr. Wil- 
helm Miller, Associate Professor of Horticulture in the Col- 
lege of Agriculture, University of Illinois, and Dr. George 
-M. Reed, Professor of Botany at the University of Missouri, 
visited the Garden during March. 
Thirty-five members of the McKinley High School class 
in Physical Geography visited the Garden for a study of 
the distribution of plants in connection with their work. 
Dr..George R. Hill, Jr., Research Assistant, has accepted 
the Professorship of Botany in the Utah Agricultural Col- 
lege. Before entering upon his new duties, in September, 
ae ae will teach plant physiology in the Cornell Summer 
ool. 
Dr. E. J. Durand, Assistant Professor of Botany at Mis- 
souri University, spent several days at the Garden consult- 
ing the mycological herbarium. 
Dr. J. M. Greenman, Curator of the Herbarium, delivered 
a lecture before the Tuesday Club, on April 15th. The sub- 
ject of Dr. Greenman’s lecture was “Trees.” 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Plant Physiologist to the Garden, ad- 
dressed the St. Louis Academy of Science, on April 21st, 
on the subject of “The Significance of Color in Plants.” 
Contrary to the usual custom, the April 12th meeting of 
the Engelmann Botanical Club was held in the afternoon. 
A discussion of the cycads from three standpoints, by Dr. 
George R. Hill, Jr., Mr. George H. Pring, and Mr. J. R. 
Schramm, respectively, formed the program of the meeting 
together with an inspection of the Garden collection of 
cycads. 
Mr. Slavin, of the Rochester, New York, Park Depart- 
ment, visited the Garden on his way to Texas, where he 
will do some collecting. : 
About one hundred and thirty-five students from the 
College of Pharmacy, in charge of Dr. Whelpley, visited the 
Garden on March 25th. . 
In response to requests directed to the Garden, Mr. Thomp- 
son, Assistant Botanist, has talked before the Neighborhood 
House and Boyle Memorial Center on “The Construction, 
Preparation and Planting of a Window Box.” 
