MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 127 
On October 21, Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the 
Garden, delivered an address before the science section of 
the Wednesday Club of St. Louis. The subject of Dr. Moore’s 
-address was: “Conservation of the Soil.” 
On September 26 the St. Louis Branch of the American 
Pharmaceutical Association held an informal meeting in 
the Garden, and visited the plant houses and out-door col- 
lections. The medicinal and rose gardens and the herba- 
ceous tract especially interested the members of the associa- 
tion. 
Mr. J. Hollister Tull, Agriculturist for the Kansas City 
Southern Railroad, and Mr. Walter Nehrling, of the Charles- 
ton, Ill., Normal School, visited the Garden during October. 
ioe Mr. Tull and Mr. Nehrling are former students of the 
arden. : 
STATISTICAL fee ete FOR SEPTEMBER, 
GARDEN ATTENDANCE: 
Total nwmber ot: visieras 62 a ees 11,769 
SEED EXCHANGE: 
Total number of packets distributed.................... 360 
Total number of packets received............. ieee ts 15 
PLANT ACCESSIONS: 
Total number of plants donated......... Plager relen yeas 735 
LIBRARY ACCESSIONS: 
Total number of books and pamphlets bought............ 18 
Total number of books and pamphlets donated........... 112 
HERBARIUM ACCESSIONS: 
By Purchase— 
A. J. Grout—North American Musci Pleurocarpi........ 
By Gift— 
H. P: Chandler—-Planis of Texas: . 023200 ke. 
is iy oF Ppa rr ad pei ab AEE EA ee cers Peoes 
B. M. Duggar— ts o WS os eee wk vessels xs 
J; A. Drusnel—Piants: of Texas: 22 22 io i ee is 
CG. Bo Mill--Plante-of Utah. oo oe as 
A. M. Huger—Zpilobium angustifolium L. from North 
CSPI oro a i a ewe eck ees 
Minnie E. Nash—Prunus caroliniana Ait. from Louisiana 
H, von Schrenk—Fungi from Oregon and New Jersey.... 
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