10 MISSOURI BOTANICAL- GARDEN BULLETIN 
bers, B. S. University of Illinois, 1915; C. W. Dodge, A. B. 
Middlebury College, 1915, reappointed third year; D. C. 
Neal, B. S. Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
1909, A. M. Washington University, 1916, reappointed 
second year; H. Schmitz, B. S., 1915, and M. S., 1916, Uni- 
versity of Washington, reappointed second year. 
‘Other appointments included that of Anne W. Davis, 
A. B. Bryn Mawr, 1917, research assistant, to succeed Dr. 
G. W. Freiberg; of J. W. Severy, A. B. Oberlin College, 
1915, and E. B. Payson, B. A. University of Wyoming, 
1917, teaching fellows in Washington University; and of 
W. 5S. Reeves, B. 8. Pomona College, 1915, scientific assistant 
to the Director. 
Graduates formerly connected with the laboratory and 
terminating their connection during the calendar year for 
educational or scientific work are as follows: Dr. G. W. 
Freiberg, Messrs. W. S. Reeves and J. W. Severy, now in 
the Washington University Base Hospital, Unit 21, France; 
I., C. Hoffman, assistant horticulturist, Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry and Purdue Experiment Station; H. M. Jennison, 
assistant professor of botany, Montana Agricultural College; 
D, C. Neal, pathologist, citrus investigations, United States 
Department of Agriculture, Alabama Experiment Station; 
H. Schmitz, Naval Reserves; R. A. Studhalter, forest pathol- 
ogist, United States Department of Agriculture; 8. M. Zeller, 
investigator, Yellow Pine Association, stationed at the Mis- 
souri Botanical Garden. 
Mr. W. H. Chambers was unable to report for a fellowship 
and is now enlisted in the Sanitary Corps of the United States 
Army. 
Dr. E. R. Allen, associate in the Ohio Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, in charge of the department of soils and of soil 
chemistry, has been granted a leave of absence for the aca- 
demic year by the station to pursue investigations in the 
graduate laboratory. He has also been appointed associate 
in bce chemistry in the Washington University Med- 
ical School. 
At the commencement of Washington University, June 
14, degrees were conferred on the members of the graduate 
laboratory as follows: Doctor of Philosophy, G. W. Freiberg, 
with a thesis on “Studies in the mosaic diseases of plants,” 
and S. M. Zeller, thesis, “Lenzites saepiaria Fries, with special 
reference to enzyme activity.” The degree of Master of Arts 
was conferred on three students as follows: Ruth Beattie, 
thesis, “Temperature relations of enzymes, with special refer- 
