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NOTES 
On February 11, the class from the University of Illinois 
Library School visited the Garden library. 
Mr. W. H. Chambers of the Department of Dairy Bac- 
teriology, University of Illinois, was a visitor at the Garden 
on February 9. 
The Engineering News, February 3, contains an article 
on “Creosote for Wood Block Paving” by Dr. Hermann von 
Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden. 
Mr. R. A. Studhalter, Rufus J. Lackland Research Fellow, 
gave an illustrated talk on the Garden and its activities at 
the San Antonio High School, December 22. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, delivered an 
address, January 29, before the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society at Boston, on “The Missouri Botanical Garden.” 
On February 17, Mr. W. W. Ohlweiler, General Manager ~ 
to the Garden, spoke before the American Wheel Association 
at the American Annex on “The Missouri Botanical Garden.” 
Mr. I. C. Hoffman, Industrial Fellow and Graduate 
Student, Department of Horticulture, Purdue University, 
has registered in the graduate laboratory for special work 
during the second term. 
Dr. Simoens da Silva, representative of the Brazilian gov- 
ernment at the 19th International Congress of Americanists, 
and of several scientific societies of Brazil to the 2nd Pan- 
American Scientific Congress, visited the Garden, Feb- 
ruary 10. 
A meeting of the Timber Committee of the American 
Society for Testing Materials was held at the Garden on 
February 8, and on February 9 the Committee on Lumber 
of the American Railway Engineering Association met at 
the Garden. 
The paper of Dr. M. C. Merrill on ‘Some Relations of 
Plants to Distilled Water, Ete.,”’ which appeared in the Sep- 
tember number of the Annals of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden, has been reprinted in full in the American Journal 
of Pharmacy. 
