MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 35 
i which he has made relative to the ecology of the cotton 
plant. 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, ad- 
dressed the Bell Telephone Club, at the Mercantile Club, on 
December 17. The subject of Dr. von Schrenk’s address was 
“Decay and Preservation of Poles, and Maintenance of Tele- 
phone Lines.” 
The following addresses were delivered by Dr. George T. 
Moore, Director of the Garden: On February 17, before the 
Washington University Association, “Speculations Regard- 
ing the Origin of Life”; on February 20, before Town and 
Gown, “Botany and the Town.” 
At the Atlanta meeting of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist 
to the Garden, was elected Vice-president of the Botanical 
Society of America. At the same meeting, Dr. Duggar was 
made a member of the Editorial Board of ‘“‘Phytopathology.” 
The newly created position of Horticulturist at the Garden 
has been filled by Mr. John Noyes. Mr. Noyes was grad- 
uated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1909, 
and served the same institution as Instructor in Landscape 
Gardening from 1909-11. Since that time and until coming 
to the Garden, Mr. Noyes has been in the employ of Warren 
H. Manning, Landscape Designer, of Boston, Massachusetts. 
Mr. Julius Erdman has been employed as gardener. Mr. 
Erdman studied at the Hoehere Gartenbau Lehranstalt, in 
Koestritz, Germany, graduating from the latter institution 
in 1897. Before coming to the Garden, Mr. Erdman held 
the position of Florist and Gardener at the Colorado State 
Agricultural College and Experiment Station, giving in- 
structional work in floriculture, landscape gardening, plant 
propagation, and kindred subjects. 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, has 
been appointed Consulting Engineer of the National Lumber 
Manufacturers’ Association, an affiliation of all lumber 
manufacturers’ associations of the United States. A promi- 
nent feature of Dr. von Schrenk’s work in this capacity will 
be the direction of a scientific investigation of the various 
important problems touching the use of lumber, such as de- 
cay-producing factors, adaptability to various uses, preserva- 
tion, fireproofing, etc. 
