MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 91 
Tennessee, and Miss Nora E. Dalbey, Assistant in Botany 
at the University of Illinois. 
About fifty delegates to the Pan-American Financial 
Conference, accompanied by a number of members of the 
Business Men’s League of St. Louis, visited the Garden on 
Saturday afternoon, June 5 
Dr. J. R. Schramm, for three years Assistant to the 
Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, has been ap- 
pointed Assistant Professor of Botany in Cornell University, 
and will enter upon his new duties on July 1. 
Delegates from eastern and southern cities, with their 
friends, on their way to attend the National Association of 
Real Estate Exchanges, were interested visitors at the Garden 
on July 16. The party numbered about 150 persons. 
Of the Rufus J. Lackland Research Fellows who have been 
studying during 1914-15 in the Graduate Laboratory, Mr. 
W. W. Bonns and Mr. R. A. Studhalter will spend the 
summer at the University of Chicago in the Department of 
Chemistry; Mr. G. W. Walbnte will study Frerich at the 
University of Washington and will spend-some time collect- 
ing study material; and Mr. 8. M. Zeller will continue his 
investigations in St. Louis. ° 
Members of the Graduate Laboratory, 1914-15, who have 
received appointments from other institutions are as fol- 
lows: Dr. M. C. Merrill, Director of the Department of 
Agriculture, Idaho Technical Institute, Pocatello, Idaho; 
Dr. W. H. Emig, Instructor in Botany, Oklahoma Agri- 
cultural College, Norman, Oklahoma; Dr. J. C. Gilman, 
Professor of Biology, Ripon‘College, Ripon, Wisconsin; Dr. 
L. O. Overholts, Instructor in Botany, Pennsylvania State 
College, State College, Pennsylvania; and Mr. F. B. Wann, 
Instructor in Botany, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 
The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred by 
Washington University, June 10, 1915, on M. C. Merrill, 
Research Assistant, with a thesis on ‘Electrolytic determina- 
tion of exosmosis from the roots of plants subjected to the 
action of various agents”; and on the following Lackland 
Research Fellows: A. R. Davis, “Enzyme action in marine 
algae”; W. H. Emig, “The occurrence in nature of certain 
yeast-like fungi with relation to their possible pathogenicity 
in the higher animals”; J. C. Gilman, “Cabbage yellows 
and the relation of temperature to its occurrence”; and L. 
O. Overholts, “Comparative studies in the Polyporaceae.” 
The degree of Master of Arts was conferred on Miss Mary 
M. Bryan, with a thesis on “A spurless variety of Habenaria 
psychodes.” 
