6 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
ANNUAL BEQUESTS 
The Flower Sermon, provided for in the will of Mr. Shaw, 
was preached in Christ Church Cathedral by the Rt. Rev. 
John C. Sage, D. D., Bishop of Salina, Kansas, on May 19, 
1918. 
Instead of the Twenty-ninth Gardeners’ Banquet, the So- 
ciety of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists, 
then in session in St. Louis, was entertained at the Garden 
on the afternoon and evening of August 22, when a supper 
was served outdoors. 
RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION 
During the past year the facilities for graduate instruction 
have been improved through the development of better 
greenhouse equipment and ially through the purchase 
of devices which may be helpful in gee humidity 
and temperature. Chief among the new pieces of laboratory 
apparatus are a chainomatic balance for analytical work, and 
a Kober colorimeter. Considerable additions have also been 
made to apparatus for nitrogen determination. 
The number of graduate courses offered during the year 
1917-18 was reduced to a minimum on account of the fact 
that only two new students were registered; but in 1918-19 
the work has become practically normal again. Neverthe- 
less, several members of the staff have devoted considerable 
attention to other scientific and civic work, arising in part as 
a result of war conditions. The Director has been placed in 
charge of the Production Division of the Federal Food Ad- 
ministration for St. Louis. He has also been President of 
the St. Louis Academy of Science, and has delivered a 
course of lectures in sanitation and hygiene before the S. A. 
T. C. of the University, also a course in field sanitation be- 
fore the third-year medical students. Dr. Duggar, in charge 
of graduate laboratory, has also assumed the duties of acting 
professor of biochemistry, administering that department 
during the absence of Professor Shaffer, who has had charge 
of nutritional work of the American Expeditionary Forces 
in France. He has also given some time to civic work while 
chairman of the executive committee of the St. Louis Art 
League. In addition, Mr. Lurie, Horticulturist, has given 
considerable attention to the work of conservation an pro- 
duction of vegetables in the vicinity of St. Louis. As a result 
of the type of contact just mentioned, the amount of corres- 
pondence has greatly increased, and undoubtedly the interest 
in various phases of garden work has correspondingly de- 
veloped. 
