10 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Fort Worth, Texas, Miss Clara Fuhr, and Mrs. Walter Good- 
win are enrolled in all or a part of the courses. 
RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION 
In spite of the impossibility of securing some much-needed 
apparatus from abroad, the facilities for graduate work and 
instruction have been augmented in important ways. Among 
the larger pieces of apparatus, a commodious soil sterilizer, 
with a steam chamber measuring 8 x 3 feet, has been in- 
stalled. This will prove advantageous both in the experi- 
mental mushroom work and in permitting pathological ex- 
periments on a larger scale. An fereet g form of turn- 
table, electrically driven, has been designed for the special 
purpose of studying the relation of spray mixtures to the 
transpiration of plants. A special tank and other apparatus 
required in certain studies on narcotization and respiration 
of bulbs and fleshy plant organs has been constructed. 
Instruction, Lectures, Etc. — Graduate instruction in bot- 
any, offered in connection with the Shaw School of Botany 
of Washington University, and conducted in the graduate 
laboratories of the Garden, has been given in accordance 
with the program announced,— all members of the staff 
participating who are at the same time members of the fac- 
ulty of Washington University. Since the number of grad- 
uate students is restricted, and most of them remain two or 
more years in the work, an effective policy of alternating 
the important courses other than those in research has been 
inaugurated, whereby the time of all teachers concerned is 
conserved most advantageously. Certain undergraduate 
courses are also ay to graduates, so it may be noted that 
the following, whether graduate or undergraduate, were 
offered in the Shaw School of Botany during 1915-16: gen- 
eral botany, biology (in coéperation with the department of 
zodlogy) , pathology, histology, bacteriology, morphology and 
taxonomy of the spermatophytes, plant geography, advanced 
physiology, special chapters in fermentation, and seminar ; 
also research in physiology, morphology, taxonomy, and 
applied mycology. 
Lectures and addresses by members of the scientific and 
Garden staffs during 1916 include the following: 
B. M. Duggar, January 3, before the St. Louis Academy. 
of Science, “An Economic Fungus of Wide Distribution.” — 
Hermann von Schrenk, January 5, before the Society of 
Federal Contractors, U. S. Treasury Department, “Timber 
Specifications.” 
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