MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 199 
NOTES 
Mr. John Noyes, Landscape Designer to the Garden, spoke 
before the St. Louis Garden Club, December 12, on “Dis- 
tinctiveness in the Garden.” 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, 
gave an address before the Purchasing Agents’ Association of 
St. Louis, December 19, on “Timber Specifications and How 
to Use Them.” 
Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to the Garden, at- 
tended the meetings of the Missouri State Horticultural 
Society at Kansas City, December 5-7, and gave a talk on 
“Tree Surgery.” 
On December 15, Mr. W. W. Ohlweiler, General Manager 
to the Garden, lectured before the faculty and students of 
the St. Louis College of Pharmacy on “What the Missouri 
Botanical Garden Offers to the Student of Pharmacy.” 
The St. Louis chapter of the Association of Collegiate 
Alumnae met in the graduate lecture room on the evening 
of December 14. An interesting program consisting of mov- 
ing pictures of horticultural ane. agricultural subjects was 
provided. 
The annual Gardeners’ Banquet, provided for in Mr. 
Shaw’s will, was held December 1 at the University Club. 
Professor E. A. White, professor of floriculture, Cornell 
University, gave an address on “What Science Has Done for 
Floriculture.” 
Recent visitors to the Garden include Professor George 
Lefevre, professor of zodlogy, University of Missouri, and 
Professor A. 8. Hitchcock, systematic agrostologist, Bureau 
of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, on 
November 24; Mr. L. C. Le Van, formerly teacher in the 
St. Louis public schools and now instructor at_ McKendree 
College, November 25; and Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, bird 
painter and lecturer, December 5. 
On December 15, the annual meeting of the State Audu- 
bon Society was held in the graduate lecture room. The 
principal speaker was Dr. R. J. Terry, who discussed “Birds 
in Relation to Human Life.” An interesting exhibit of bird 
books was displayed, also bird houses and other means for 
the attraction and propagation of birds. The society decided 
to make an active educational campaign to promote interest 
in the protection of wild birds throughout the state. 
