MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 189 
NOTES 
The third number of Volume III of the Annals of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden has been issued with the follow- 
ing contents: ; 
“The Missouri Agrimonies.” B. F. Bush. 
. des Thelephoraceae of North America. VII.” E. A. 
urt. 
“Catalogue of the Plants of Jasper County, Missouri.” 
BK. J. Palmer. 
Mr. I. C. Hoffman, Industrial Fellow, Department of 
Horticulture, Purdue University, has registered for work in 
the graduate laboratory. 
On November 22, Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to 
the Garden, spoke before the Railroad Branch, Y. M. C. A., 
on “Flowers for the Home.” 
Dr. A. R. Davis, formerly Research Assistant to the 
Garden, has been ne Mons. Assistant Professor of Botany 
at the University of Nebraska. 
Mr. W. W. Ohlweiler, General Manager of the Garden, 
lectured before the Parkview Improvement Association, 
November 13, on “Garden Development About the Home.” 
As a result of the competitive examinations held in Sep- 
tember, Miss Margaret Corley of St. Louis, and Mr. George 
Pedlow of Indianapolis, were awarded Garden scholarships. 
Mr. W. W. Eggleston, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, recently spent a day in 
the Garden herbarium studying certain plants which are 
poisonous to stock in the Northwest. 
Recent visitors to the Garden include Dr. W. C. Sturgis, 
of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 21, and Mr. Martin 
Nelson and W. H. Wicks, sea: sepes§ Director and_Horti- 
culturist of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Fayetteville, on November 8. 
The Association of Collegiate Alumnae of St. Louis held 
their November meeting in the graduate lecture room of the 
Garden, on November i. Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticul- 
turist to the Garden, addressed the meeting on “Winter Pro- 
tection of Plants.” 
Dr.. Hermann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, 
attended the meetings of the American Society for Municipal 
Improvements as a member of the committee on Paving 
Standards, at Newark, New Jersey, October 10. He also 
attended the convention of South Cypress Manufacturers 
