MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 59 
NOTES 
The class from the University of Illinois Library School 
visited the Garden library, March 26. 
The first spring meeting of the St. Louis Section of the 
acta Nature Study Society was held at the Garden, 
arch 21. 
On April 14, Mr. S. Alexander, of Detroit, Michigan, gave 
an illustrated talk before the members of the staff and gradu- 
ate students on some of his recent work on sunflowers. 
Dr. W. E. Garrey, Associate Professor of Physiology in 
the Medical School of Washington University, addressed 
the members of the Seminar, March 31, on “Temperature 
Coefficients and Nerve Action.” 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, lectured 
before the faculty and students of the Iowa Agricultural 
College under the auspices of the “Graduate Association” 
on “he Vegetation and Plant Industries of Algeria.” 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, de- 
livered a series of five lectures before the members of the 
Department of Forestry of the University of Toronto, March 
14, 15, and 16, on “Diseases of Trees and Structural 
Timbers.” 
On April 6, Mr. W. W. Ohlweiler, General Manager to 
the Garden, gave an illustrated lecture before the Monday 
Club of Edwardsville, Illinois, on ‘Home Gardens”; and on 
April 14, Mr. Ohlweiler spoke before the Eugenics Class 
of the School of Social Economy of Washington University, 
on “Plant Development.” 
The Science Section of the Wednesday Club held a meet- 
ing in the graduate lecture room, on April 21. The meet- 
ing was devoted to the subject of forestry, and was ad od, 
among others, by Mr. C. H. Thompson, Assistant Botanist 
_ to the Garden, a spoke on “‘Pests of Forest Trees.” After 
the meeting, the members were conducted through the 
Garden by Mir. Thompson. 
In the February number of the BULLETIN attention was 
called to an albino form of the Cattley orchid (Cattleya 
Schroederae). Since that time other plants of the same 
species have come into flower, one of which is bearing a 
peculiarly abnormal flower. The latter possesses, in addition 
to the parts normally present, two sepals, one petal, two 
anthers, eight pollen masses, and two stigmas. 
