MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 93 
NOTES 
The Rufus J. Lackland fellowships for the year 1916-17 
have been awarded to the following: 
Mr. W. W. Bonns, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology, 1899; B.S.A., Cornell University, 1909, reappointed. 
Mr. Carroll W. Dodge, A.B., Middlebury College, 1915, 
reappointed. 
Mr. R. A. Studhalter, A.B., University of Texas, 1912, 
reappointed. 
Mr. H. C. Young, B.S., Ohio State University, 1913; M.S., 
Agricultural and Mechanics College of North Cavolina: 1915, 
reappointed. 
Mr. D. C. Neal, B.S. Mississippi Agricultural and 
Mechanical College, 1909; graduate work, University of 
Chicago, 1915, and Henry Shaw School of Botany, 1915-16. 
Mr. George W. Freiberg, Rufus J. Lackland Fellow, has 
been appointed Research Assistant to sueceed Dr. A. R. Davis. 
Dr. Samuro Kakiuchi, of the Imperial University, Tokio, 
was a Garden visitor February 9. 
Mr. G. H. Pring delivered an address on “The Mimicry 
of Orchids” before the Mothers’ Circle of the Clifton Heights 
School on April 6. 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, discussed 
before the St. Louis Garden Club “Some Fundamental Facts 
of Plant Life,” on April 11. 
Dr. A. R. Davis, Research Assistant to the Garden, ad- 
dressed the Academy of Science, March 20, on “Enzyme 
Action in the Marine Algae.” 
On March 27, Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the 
Garden, lectured before the viwond Monday Evening Club 
on the “Missouri Botanical Garden.” 
Dr. Edwin C. Miller of Kansas Agricultural College, Man- 
hattan, Kansas, visited the Garden, April 4-6, and Mr. C. 
H. Winkler of the Department of Botany, University of 
Texas, April 14. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, served on 
the Board of Jurors of the National Flower Show at Phila- 
delphia, March 25-April 2, and in the same capacity at the 
New York Show, April 5-12. 
_ The 1915 volume of the Proceedings of the American So- 
ciety for Municipal Improvements contains an article by Dr. 
Hermann von Bchien Pathologist to the Garden, on 
“Creosote for Wood Block Paving.” 
