124 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
NOTES 
The St. Louis Florists’ Club held a meeting at the Garden, 
November 21. 
Sergeant A. B. McIntyre, of the Aviation Corps, formerly 
outside foreman at the Garden, visited the Garden recently. 
Dr. W. W. Bonns, formerly Rufus J. Lackland Fellow, 
has accepted a position as director of the botanical research 
department of Eli Lilly Co., pharmaceutical chemists, 
Indianapolis. 
Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to the Garden, has 
been appointed Assistant to the Director of the Production 
Division of the Federal Food Administration of St. Louis. 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, has been 
appointed a member of a Committee on Standardization of 
Terminology and Methods in Phytopathology, which will 
hold its first session in Baltimore, December 27. 
On the afternoon of November 20, the British Educational 
Commission to the United States visited the Garden. Mem- 
bers of the party were: Dr. A. E. Shipley, University of 
Cambridge ; Sir Henry Miers, University of Manchester; Rev. 
KE. M. Walker, Oxfor University ; Sir Henry Jones, Univer- 
sity of Glasgow; and Dr. John Joly, Trinity College, Dub- 
lin. Much interest was manifested in the library, her- 
barium, and laboratory equipment for graduate work in 
botany, as well as in the various collections of plants in the 
greenhouses. 
In exchange for a duplicate collection of vandas and 
nepenthes, Mr. Joseph Manda, of West Orange, New Jersey, 
orchid expert of the eastern states, has contributed to the 
Garden a valuable collection of brassocattleyas, cattleyas, and 
laeliocattleyas. These plants are recent hybrids from rare 
types which will add greatly to the orchid displays. Among 
them the albino variety of Laeliocattleya Canhamiana and 
the brassocattleyas, noteworthy for their extremely large, 
fringed lips, stand out most prominently. The entire col- 
lection includes the following: 
Brassocattleya * Ilene (B. O. X Maronae 9 X OC. Dowiana) 
Brassocattleya X Leemanniae (B. Digbyana 9 X OC. Dowiana) 
Brassocattleya < Mariae (B. Digbyana 9 X O. Warneri) 
Brassocattleya x Maroni (B. Digbyana K OC. Mendelii 9 ) 
Brassocattleya * Thorntonii (B. Digbyana x C. Gaskelliana 9) 
Brassocattleya X Wellesleyae (B. Digbyana 9 X OC. Lueddemannia 
Cattleya X Adula (bicolor x Hardyana) 
Cattleya X amabilis (labiata 9 X Warscewiczii) 
Cattleya < Beatrice (Dowiana 9 X Minucia) 
Cattleya X Brenda (x Dusseldorffei Undine © X Gaskelliana alba) 
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