104 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Mr. Droushel, of the Teachers’ College, recently brought 
his summer school class in botany to the Garden. Mr: 
Droushel frequently consults the Garden herbarium and 
has on many occasions donated interesting specimens to 
the collection. 
Mr. L. O. Kunkel, Rufus Lackland Fellow during the 
year 1911-12, visited the Garden on June 27. Mr. Kunkel 
has been assistant to Dr. Harper at Columbia University dur- 
ing the past year and will have charge of the summer school 
work in plant physiology at the same institution during the 
present season. 
Dr. Moore, Director of the Garden, is spending the months 
of July and August in Wood’s Hole, Massachusetts, where, 
asin former years, he is directing the work in the botanical 
department of the Marine Biological Laboratory and _per- 
sonally conducting the course in Morphology and Tax- 
onomy of the Alge. Dr. B. M. Duggar, Plant Physiologist 
to the Garden, is likewise spending the summer at the Marine 
Biological Laboratory. Besides doing active work in re- 
search, Dr. Duggar is giving a course on the Physiology and 
Ecology of Marine, Strand and Bog Vegetation. 
A feature of the recent Commencement Exercises at Mid- 
giebary. College was the presentation of a purse to Dr. E. A. 
Burt, Mycologist and Librarian-elect, to the Missouri Botan- 
ical Garden, to be used as he sees fit in his research work. 
The following letter was read from the alumni: 
As the Commencement of 1913 of Middlebury Coll marks 
the departure of one of the professors best known to the recent 
alumni, Dr. Edward Angus Burt, members of the classes 1896- 
_ 1912, inclusive, desire to express their appreciation of his services 
during the past eighteen years. 
The gift which they present is but a slight expression of the 
deep regard they have for him as a scholar, a teacher and a friend. 
Now that Middlebury is making great strides in material progress, 
there is need to keep in mind the fundamental truth, that a col- 
lege is great only in so far as she has great teachers. Such a great — 
teacher the recent alumni consider Dr, Burt, the worth of whom 
they have come to appreciate more and more as the years have ad- 
vanced. They congratulate him upon the scientific honor of his 
new position, and extend to him their best wishes. 
Signed by the Committee for the Alumni 1896-1912. 
