MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 149 
The names of those elected to membership, with an indi- 
cation of those present, follows: 
ACTIVE 
*Deusner, Charles W., ’00, 4526 N. Paulina Street, Chicago, Il. 
*Erwin, Arthur T., ’96, Iowa Ag. Ex. Station, Ames, Iowa. 
*Fullgraf, Charles W., ’04, Chemical Building, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Gross, Arthur R., 01, Mount Greenwood Cem’y, Morgan Park, Chicago 
*Nehrling, Arno H., ’09, Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. 
*Nehrling, Bruno, ’03, Highland Cemetery, South Bend, Ind. 
*Nehrling, Walter H., 99, Eastern Illinois State Normal, Charleston, Ill. 
*Ochs, Henry, ’09, Anheuser-Busch Brewing Assn., St. Louis, Mo. 
*Pfaender, Peter, "14, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Schulte, George D., ’07, Oregon, Missouri. 
*Smith, Arthur H., ’11, Kemble Floral Company, Boone, Iowa. 
*Sutermeister, Miss Eda A., 00, 423 Security Building, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Winther, Cornelius, ’00, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. 
ASSOCIATE 
*Federer, William A., 3841 Wyoming Street, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Giebel Carl, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Gillies, Walter, 4312 De Soto Street, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Grossart, Fred A., Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Tuggle, Jesse B., Park College, Parkville, Mo. 
HONORARY 
*Dr. George Thomas Moore, Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Dr Edward Angus Burt, Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Dr. Jacob Richard Schramm, Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo, 
*Mr. Charles Henry Thompson, Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Mr. William Woodward Ohlweiler, Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo, 
Mr. John Noyes, Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Mr. Julius Erdman, Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Mr. Konstantin Nicolaus Svetlikoff, Mo. Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
*Mr. Henry Michiel Biekart, Missouri Bot. Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 
Mr. James Gurney, Sr., Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, Mo. 
Dr. William Trelease, University of Illinois, Urbana, III. 
*Mr. Henry C. Irish, Board of Education, St. Louis, Mo. 
Dr. J. B.S. Norton, Maryland Ag. Ex. Station, College Park, Maryland 
*Dr. John Charles Whitten, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 
*Present at initial meeting. 
THE DOVE ORCHID 
Among the many plants indigenous to the moist regions 
of Central America, one of the most interesting is the dove, 
or Holy Ghost, orchid (Peristeria elata). This plant was 
first brought into cultivation in 1826, when Mr. Bernard, a 
Peruvian merchant, sent it to Mr. Harrison, of Liverpool, 
England, in whose orchid house it flowered for the first time 
in 1839. The Garden owes the addition of this orchid to 
its collection to Mr. Leonard Matthews, who successfully 
brought specimens from Panama, in 1889. 
