130 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
tory, and J. S. Cooley, formerly Rufus J. Lackland Fellow 
in the Henry Shaw School of Botany of Washington 
University. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, addressed 
the City Club, October 13, on “The Relation of the Mis- 
sourl Botanical Garden to the City.” 
Professor C. 8. Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum, Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts, accompanied by Mr. Ames, spent a 
few hours at the Garden on October 22. 
About one hundred members of the City Club of St. Louis 
visited the Garden on October 17, and were shown through 
the various conservatories and collections by Garden guides. 
On the evening preceding the opening of the anniver- 
sary celebration, a smoker was given at the University Club 
for scientists who were in the city for the anniversary 
exercises. 
Dr. George Grant Hedgecock, Pathologist in the Bureau 
of Plant Industry, U. 8. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington, D. C., recently spent several days at the Garden in 
a study of certain collections in the herbarium. 
Classes from the following schools visited the Garden dur- 
ing the past month and were escorted by guides of the 
Garden: Mary Institute, Soldan High School, Sherman 
School, Horace Mann School, and Shenandoah School. 
Dr. Lewis Knudson, Assistant Professor of Plant Physi- 
ology, Cornell — of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York, is 
spending a six-months’ leave of absence from his University 
at the Garden, pursuing investigations in the graduate 
laboratory. 
A circular of general information concerning the Garden 
has been prepared for distribution to visitors to the Garden. 
The leaflets will be handed to visitors upon entering the 
Garden at the main gate. Attention is called to the copy 
of the circular inserted in this number of the BULLETIN. 
On Wednesday, October 14, Professor Charles E. Bessey 
of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, addressed 
the faculty and students of Washington University on 
“From Moscow to Ararat; a Professor’s Journey through 
Russia.” Professor Bessey was in St. Louis as a delegate 
to the anniversary celebration of the Garden. 
Dr. Johanna Westerdijk, Director of the Phytopatho- 
logical Laboratory, Amsterdam, Holland, and Geheimer 
