4 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
ment One of the first organizations to avail itself of this offer 
was the Red Cross, which was granted permission to estab- 
lish a surgical dressing shop, the first one to be opened on the 
i side, in the lecture room of the administration build- 
ing-' A suitable packing room was provided in the basement, 
and light, heat, janitor service, and other necessities were 
furnished without cost to the Red Cross. Since the workers 
in this shop came almost exclusively from the immediate 
neighborhood, very few of whom had been working else- 
where, there was at once supplied a very considerable addition 
to the output of the St. Louis chapter. 
The following employees of the Garden, together with 
students in the Shaw School of Botany and the School for 
Gardening, have been actively engaged either in military 
or naval service or in war work abroad. Practically all of 
these are on leave of absence, and it is expected that they 
will return as soon as they are released from service: C. W. 
Dodge, Rufus J. Lackland fellow; W. G. Ellis, garden stu- 
dent; G. W. Freiberg, research assistant; Frank C. Harris, 
garden student; Adam Huber, gardener; Mrs. K. H. Leigh, 
secretary to the Director; C. McGovern, gardener; R. D. 
Mitchell, garden student; C. L. Moody, gardener; James 
Monteith, garden student; E. B. Payson, teaching fellow, 
Henry Shaw School of Botany; George P. Pedlow, garden 
student; W. S. Reeves, scientific assistant to the Director; 
Henry Schmitz, Rufus J. Lackland fellow; and J. W. Sev- 
ery, teaching fellow, Henry Shaw School of Botany. 
Various members of the staff have been associated with 
war activities in this country as members of such organiza- 
tions as the Council of National Defense, Raw Products Com- 
mittee, Food Administration, ete./In addition, the facilities 
of the Garden have been directed toward solving specific 
problems as well as furnishing information both along mil- 
itary and commercial lines. '¥The value of the scientific work 
done at the Garden, together-with the great importance of 
the library, herbarium, and laboratories, has never been so 
fully manifested, and it is obvious that the business man has 
begun to appreciate the services which an institution like the 
Garden can at least render in a practical way) 
GIFT OF MR. D. 8S. BROWN 
In April, Mr. D. 8. Brown, of Kirkwood, donated to the 
Garden a considerable portion of his remarkable collection 
of orchids, palms, etc., and later in the year he likewise gave 
his magnificent collection of cypripediums. Details of these 
gifts were given in the Bunietin for May and November. 
