34 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
NOTES 
Miss Herta Toeppen, a graduate of the Garden course, 
visited the Garden January 2. 
Mr. J. F. Groves, graduate student in botany at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, recently visited the Garden. 
Professor A. H. Gilbert of the State University, Lexing- 
ton, Kentucky, consulted the library during the Holiday 
recess. 
Professor Leo E. Melchers, Pathologist at the Kansas Agri- 
cultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, visited the Garden 
January 6. 
The fourth number of Volume I of the Annals of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden has been issued, with the fol- 
lowing contents: 
“Thelephoraceae of North America III.  Craterellus 
borealis and Cyphella.” E. A. Burt. 
“Some Oenotheras from Cheshire and Lancashire.” R. 
R. Gates. 
“A Texan Species of Megapterium.” R. R. Gates. 
“Diagnoses of Flowering Plants, Chiefly from the South- 
western United States and Mexico.” J. M. Greenman and 
C. H. Thompson. 
“Enzyme Action in Fucus vesiculosus L.” B. M. Duggar 
and rig 3 Davis. 
Mr. Robert Meyer, a former Garden student, has recently 
returned from the Philippine Islands, and is at present living 
at 3818 Arsenal Street, St. Louis. 
At the meeting of the Garden Students’ Club on February 
19, Mr. C. W. Garrett spoke on “Pruning Trees and Shrubs,” 
and Mr. P. A. Pfaender on “The Uses of Dynamite.” 
On January 14, Mr. G. H. Pring addressed the Garden 
Club of Webster Groves, Mo., on “Aquatic Gardening.” 
Various types of lilies from the Garden collection were illus- 
trated by photographs. ~—’ 
Mr. John re hes Landscape Designer to the Garden, spoke 
before the Garden Club of Webster Groves, Missouri, Febru- 
ary 18, on “How the Improvement of Home Grounds Pro- 
motes City Planning.” : 
Mr. W. W. Bonns, Assistant Professor of Pomology at 
the College of Agriculture, University of California, stationed 
at the Graduate School of Tropical A iculture, Riverside, 
California, has begun work toward his doctorate in the 
graduate laboratory. 
