MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 95 
Geh. Regierungsrat Dr. O. Appel, of the Kaiserlichen 
- Biologischen Anstalt fiir Land-und Forstwirtschaft in Berlin- 
Dahlem, who is giving a course of lectures at the Graduate 
School of Agriculture, at present in session at Missouri Uni- 
versity, and who will subsequently make a three months’ 
tour of the United States in a study of potato diseases, visited 
the Garden on July 25 in company with Mr. W. A. Orton, 
Pathologist in Charge cotton and truck diseases and sugar 
plant investigations, U. 8. Department of Agriculture, Bureau 
of Plant Industry. 
Volume 1, number 2 of the Annals of the Missouri Botan- 
ical Garden has appeared with the following contents: 
“A Trunk Disease of the Lilac.”” Hermann von Schrenk, 
Pathologist to the Garden. 
“Two Trunk Diseases of the Mesquite.” Hermann von 
Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden. 
“The Thelephoraceae of North America. I.” Edward A. 
Burt, Mycologist and Librarian to the Garden. 
“A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Relation of 
Certain Species of Grass-Green Algae to Elementary Nitro- 
gen.” Jacob R. Schramm, Assistant to the Director. 
“The Effect of Certain Conditions Upon the Acidity of 
Tomato Fruits.” B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, 
and M. C. Merrill, Research Assistant to the Garden. 
“A Method for the Differential Staining of Fungous and 
Host Cells.” R. E. Vaughan, Exchange Fellow in the 
Henry Shaw School of Botany of Washington University. 
“Indications Regarding the Source of Combined Nitrogen 
for Ulva Lactuca.” G. - Foster, Teaching Fellow in the 
Henry Shaw School of Botany of Washington University. 
STATISTICAL INFORMATION FOR JUNE, 1914 
GARDEN ATTENDANCE: 
Total-swmiber- of visitors. 6 oo eee es 12,315 
PLANT ACCESSIONS: 
Total number of plants received in exchange....-...... 90 
Total number of packets of seeds received in exchange... . 1l 
PLANT DISTRIBUTION: 
Be ee ee ee eer er ee eee 16 
bs es rey Pr re ee ong ee ee hale 503 
Lirpgary ACCESSIONS: : 
Total number of books and pamphlets bought......-.----- 
Total number of books and pamphlets Genet. 655. is 217 
