14 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
ships: J. 8. Cooley, M. S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute 
(formerly Asst. Pathologist at the Va. Agr. Experiment 
Station); A. R. Davis, A. B., Pomona College, Calif.; 
W. H. Emig, A. B., Washington Univ.; Margaret De Meritt, 
M. 8., New Hampshire College (formerly Asst. in Botany 
N. H. College) ; and L. O. Overholts, A. B., Miami Univ., 
Ohio. Miss De Meritt, however, has been temporarily 
unable to continue her studies on account of ill health. 
All graduates who have pursued studies in the laboratories 
during the calendar year are Ruth Beattie, Mary Bryan, C. O. 
Chambers, J. S. Cooley, A. R. Davis, Margaret De Meritt, 
W. H. Emig, G. L. Foster (Teaching Fellow in Washington 
University), George R. Hill, Jr., M. C. Merrill, Fred Morgan, 
A. G. Nolte, H. H. Shackelford, J. R. Schramm, Mil 
Spargo (Mrs. J. R. Schramm), and R. L. Vaughn. In addi- 
tion to the above, R. E. Richardson, representing the Illinois 
State Laboratory of Natural History, has used the facilities 
of the laboratory while engaged upon a study of biological 
material collected in the Chicago Sanitary Canal and Upper 
Aeieper River, preparatory to an extensive report on t 
subject. 
Practically all of those taking graduate instruction have 
been registered for credit and for advanced degrees in the 
Shaw School of Botany of Washington University. The 
degree of Ph. D. was conferred by Washington Univer- 
sity in June, 1913, upon C. O. Chambers, J. R. Schramm, 
and Mrs J. R. Schramm, and the A. M. degree was conferred 
upon A. G. Nolte. 
Changes in Staff Members and Graduates—Dr. J. M. 
Greenman was appointed Curator of the Herbarium on Janu- 
ary Ist, and Dr. E. A. Burt became Mycologist and Librarian 
to the Garden on September 1st. Assistants and graduates 
who have changed or terminated their connection with the 
et during the year, are as follows: Ruth Beattie, 
spon Assistant in Botany in the University of Missouri; 
. O. Chambers, appointed ctor in Plant Physiology, 
University of Cincinnati; George R. Hill, Jr. (formerly 
Research Assistant), appointed Professor of Botany in the 
Utah Agricultural College; A. G. Nolte, appointed Assistant 
in the chemical (bacteriological) laboratory of the Water 
omnens, ryt seed WwW: = eta (formerly Teach- 
ing Fellow in Washington University), appointed General — 
Manager of the Garden; and J. R. Se aie (formerly — 
Assistant to the Director), reappointed and made also In- 
structor in Botany in Washington University. 2 
