MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 135 
greenhouse which will prove of interest to those visiting the 
Garden on week days. 
NOTES 
On October 6, about one hundred of the alumni of the 
Washington University Medical School visited the Garden. 
’ As a result of the competitive Garden scholarship examina- 
tion held September 4, a scholarship was awarded to Mr. 
James Monteith, of St. Louis. 
Mrs. T. S. Brandegee, of the University of California, 
spent several days in the Garden herbarium during October 
studying type material of various genera, particularly 
Lupinus and Oenothera. 
Mr. W. W. Eggleston, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., visited 
the Garden, October 14, and spent the day examining ma- 
terial of Lupinus in the Garden herbarium. 
Recent visitors to the Garden include Senor Adrian 
Recinos, Assistant Secretary of State of Guatemala and a 
delegate to the Dry Farming International Congress at 
Denver, on October 2, and Mr. Hal. B. Fullerton, Director 
Agricultural Development of the Long Island Railroad Com- 
pany, on October 8. 
Mr. G. H. Pring has started the new course of lectures on 
Economic Horticulture for the senior garden 26 te The 
course will be particularly interesting, as it embraces the 
study of plants of economic and industrial importance, 
special emphasis being given to the native and exotic repre- 
sentatives in the Garden collection. 
The third number of Volume II of the Annals of the Mis- 
souri Botanical Garden has been issued. with the following 
contents: 
“Rhizoctonia Crocorum (Pers.) DC. and R. Solani Kiihn 
ge erat vagum B. & C.) with Notes on Other Species.” 
. M. Duggar. 
“Some Relations of Plants to Distilled Water and Certain 
Dilute Toxic Solutions.” M. C. Merrill. 
“Electrolytic Determination of Exosmosis from the Roots 
of Plants Subjected to the Action of Various Agents.” M. 
C. Merrill. 
“Monograph of the North and Central American Species 
of the Genus Senecio—Part II.” J. M. Greenman. 
“The Thelephoraceae of North America IV.” E. A. Burt. 
Of the forty degrees of Doctor of shinee! in botany 
conferred by American universities during the past college 
year, five were granted by Washington University to students 
