44 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
The collection of Indian jasmines (Jzora undulata) are 
in full flower in the epiphytic orchid house. They are ex- 
tremely showy plants, native of India. 
On March 16, Mr. F. S. Grossart spoke before the En- 
tomological Section of the St. Louis Academy of Science on 
“The Evolution of the Chrysanthemum.” 
On March 11, Mr. W. W. Ohlweiler, General Manager to 
the Garden, spoke before the St. Louis Florists’ Club at the 
Odd Fellows’ Building on “A Few Things About Soils.” 
In the last two months the Garden class in engineering 
has visited greenhouse ranges at Kirkwood and Crescent, 
Missouri, and at Edwardsville, Illinois. These inspection 
trips constitute a part of that phase of the engineering course 
which relates to greenhouse construction. 
In the banana dome adjoining the orchid house a specimen 
of the red banana and one of the commercial yellow banana 
are at present in fruit. In addition, two yellow banana 
plants are just coming into flower. Attention is called to 
the article on the banana which appeared in the September, 
1914, number of the BuLLEetrn, in which will be found a 
more or less detailed discussion of the flowers, fruit, cultiva- 
aon and commercial uses of this important food-yielding 
plant. 
The following is a list of new members of the Missouri 
Botanical Garden Alumni Association who have joined since 
January, 1915: 
Active 
Otto Bogula, 394 Military Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. 
Edwin Nyden, 303 Court House, Portland, Oregon. 
Walter Retzer, Main and Rusk Streets, Houston, Texas. 
Miss Herta A. Toeppen, 20th Century Club, 595 Delaware 
Avenue, Buffalo, New York. 
Associate 
Clark W. Craig, Rush Lake, Wisconsin. 
On the evening of March 18, the Washington University 
Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi was the guest of the 
Garden at a meeting and smoker in the graduate lecture 
room and laboratory. The formal Fg of the program con- 
sisted of an address by Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the 
Garden, on “Botany as an Ba ae Science,” and a dis- 
cussion by Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, 
in charge of Graduate Laboratory, of the general aspects of 
the botanical research work carried on in the graduate labora- 
