MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 13 
The privileges of the graduate lecture room were extended 
to the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, November 11 and 
eget ha 14, and to the State Audubon Society, Decem- 
er 15. 
Graduates and Fellows. — The position of research assist- 
ant, formerly held by Dr. A. R. Davis, was filled by the 
appointment of Mr. G. W. Freiberg, formerly Rufus J. Lack- 
land fellow. Mr. Freiberg has continued his investigations 
of mosaic diseases of certain economic plants and has assisted 
in various researches of the department. 
The following are the 1916 appointments to the Rufus J, 
Lackland fellowships: 
W. W. Bonns, 8.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy, B.S.A., Cornell ee (formerly assistant professor 
of pomology, University of California, Citrus Experiment 
Station, Riverside, California), reappointed second year; 
C. W. Dodge, A.B., Middlebury Col ope (formerly teacher 
of elementary botany, wae igh School), reap- 
pointed second year; D. C. Neal, B.S., Mississippi Agricul- 
tural and Mechanical College (formerly assistant plant path- 
ologist, West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station) ; 
L. J. Pessin, B.S., University of Georgia (formerly student 
curator of botany, University of Georgia) ; H. Schmitz, B.S. 
and M.S., University of Washington (formerly laboratory 
assistant, University of Washington). 
Other appointments were as follows: 
S. M. Zeller, special research assistant Yellow Pine Asso- 
ciation, B.S., Greenville College, A.B. and A.M., University 
of Washington (formerly instructor in botany, University 
of hie al reappointed third year; W. 8. Reeves, BS., 
Pomona College, scientific assistant to the Director, reap- 
pointed second year. 
Graduate students holding positions in Washington Uni- 
versity are the following: 
H. M. Jennison, B.Sc., Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
lege, M.A., Wabash College (assistant professor of botany 
and bacteriology, Montana State College, on leave of ab- 
sence), assistant in botany, reappointed second year; J. W. 
Severy, A.B., Oberlin College, teaching fellow in the Henry 
Shaw School of Botany, reappointed second year. 
Others registered for graduate work or pursuing re- 
searches in the graduate laboratory during the calendar year, 
for the most part registered for advanced degrees in Wash- 
ington University or elsewhere, are A. R. Davis, Ph.D. (for- 
merly research assistant); I. C. Hoffman, B.S. (Industrial 
