74 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Prof. E. D. Merrill, Botanist of the Philippine Bureau of 
Science, spent a few days at the Garden about the middle of 
May. On May 12, he addressed the staff and graduate stu- 
dents on some aspects of the botanical work in the Philip- 
pines. : 
On May 18, the Commercial Commissioners of China, ac- 
companied by representatives of the Business Men’s League 
of St. Louis, visited the Garden and were conducted through 
the grounds. Much interest was displayed by the visitors 
in the insectivorous plants as well as in the plants indigenous 
to China. 
The Washington University Chapter of the Society of the 
Sigma Xi held its annual banquet for the initiation of new 
members on May 20. Dr. EB. A. Burt, ee and 
Librarian to the Garden and Associate Professor o Botan 
in Washington University, Mr. G. W. Freiburg and Mr. R. 
A. Studhalter, Rufus J. Lackland Research Fellows, and 
Mr. W. W. Bonns, appointed Rufus J. Lackland Fellow for 
1915-16, were among the new members initiated. 
Recent visitors to the Garden include Dr. Wm. Trelease, 
Professor of Botany, University of Illinois; Dr. F. P. Mall, 
Professor of Anatomy, Johns opkins University; Dr. A. G. 
Johnson of the University of Wisconsin; Dr. L. J. Cole, Pro- 
fessor of on etait Breeding, College of Agriculture, 
University of Wisconsin; Dr. H. A. Harding, Chief of the 
Division of Dairy Husbandry, University of Illinois, and 
Dr. Wm. Howell, Professor of Physiology, Johns Hopkins 
University. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, attended the 
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Nebraska Academy of © 
Sciences, on May 21, as the official delegate of the Missouri 
Botanical Garden, the Academy of Science of St. Louis, the 
Indiana Academy of Science, and the Academy of’ Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia. He spoke at the memorial service 
for the late Dr. Charles E. Bessey, and gave an illustrated 
lecture on “The Missouri Botanical Garden as a Scientific 
Institution.” 
The Rufus J. Lackland Research Fellowships for the year 
‘1915-1916 have been awarded to the following: 
Mr. R. A. Studhalter, A.B., University of Texas, 1912, re- 
appointed. seen 
Mr. George-W. Freiburg, B.S., South Dakota State Col- 
lege, 1913, reappointed. | 
/)~Mr. W. W. Bonns, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology, 1899; B.S.A., Cornell University, 1909; Assistant 
