MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 45 
NOTES 
Both bluebirds and robins were observed in the Garden 
on Sunday, February 17. 
Prof. Laurenz Green, of the Iowa Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, Ames, Iowa, visited the Garden on January 25. 
Mr. Fred G. Grossart, a former Garden pupil, has been 
nd Maoh Head Gardener, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 
Nebraska. 
Mr. Max Geisler, a graduate of Iowa State College, has 
recently been placed in charge of the trees and shrubs at 
the Garden. 
The fourth number of Volume III of the Annals of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden has recently been issued with 
the following contents: 
e “Pistillaria (subg. Pistillina) Thaxteri, Burt n. sp.” E. A. 
urt. 
“A Note on the Adaptability of the Folin Micro-Kjeldahl 
Apparatus for Plant Work.” A. R. Davis. 
“Studies in the Physiology of the Fungi. I. Nitrogen Fixa- 
tion.” B. M. Duggar and A. R. Davis. 
“Studies in the Physiology of the Fungi. II. Lenzites 
ca tg tg with Special Reference to Enzyme Activity.” 
S. M. Zeller. 
Mr. J. Francis Macbride, of the Gray Herbarium of Har- 
vard University, recently spent a day in the Garden Her- 
barium examining material of the Boraginaceae. 
A lecture on ‘Native Aquatic Plants Adapted to Aquaria” 
was given before the St. Louis Aquarium Society at the 
American Hotel by Mr. G. H. Pring, in charge of conserva- 
tories, on February 13. 
Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to the Garden, spoke 
before the Mothers’ Club of the Benton School, January 19, 
on “Outdoor Flowers” and before the Mothers’ Club of the 
Devonshire School, February 16, on “Back Yard Gardens.” 
On February 1 Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the 
Garden, addressed the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity on “The 
Garden and the Town”; and on February 7 spoke before 
the Wednesday Club on “New Fruits and Vegetables for the 
St. Louis Market.” : 
The St. Louis College of Pharmacy, comprising 65 
students, visited the Garden on January 25. Mr. G. H.- 
Pring, in charge of conservatories, conducted them through 
