MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 155 
Dr. E. R. Allen, associate in the Ohio Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station, in charge of the department of soils and 
soil chemistry, is now on leave of absence and is pursuing 
investigations in the graduate laboratory at the Garden. 
According to an announcement in Science, Dr. A. R. 
Davis, Research Assistant to the Garden, 1915-16, has re- 
ceived a commission as Captain in the Coast Artillery, U. 8. 
Reserves, and is at present assistant ordnance officer, Fort 
Howard, Maryland. 
On October 5, Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to the 
Garden, judged the Clifton Heights School exhibit of veg- 
etables and flowers, and on October 27, Mr. G. H. Pring, in 
charge of conservatories, acted in the same capacity for the 
Oak Hill School gardens. 
The fall and winter floral displays will be inaugurated 
Sunday, November 4, with the opening of the Chrysanthe- 
mum Shoe The exhibit will include a considerable num- 
ber of new forms and an unusually large and attractive col- 
lection of all the known types. 
On the first “Know St. Louis” automobile tour, Septem- 
ber 23, the party, which consisted of about 125 of the city, 
hotel, and railroad officials and some members of the St. 
Louis Advertising Club, made a stop at the Garden and were 
shown about by special guides. 
Among the recent visitors to the Garden were Prof. T. 
Yokoi, President of Tokyo Agricultural College and Pro- 
fessor of Agricultural Economics in the Imperial University 
of Tokyo, September 26; Dr. L. O. Kunkel, formerly Rufus 
J. Lackland Research Fellow, now plant pathologist, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, October 5; Mr. J. E. Rhodes, 
Secretary-manager of the Southern Pine Association, Octo- 
ber 12; Dr. Norman Taylor, of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden, October 12; Prof. Frank A. Waugh, Professor of 
Landscape Architecture, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
October 22. 
Among those appointed as Rufus J. Lackland Fellows for 
1917-18, Mr. D. C. Neal resigned on account of a perma- 
nent appointment as pathologist on the citrus canker work 
in Southern Alabama; Mr. W. H. Chambers was drafted for 
military service and has applied for a commission in sani- 
tary work; Mr. Henry Schmitz is now in the Naval Reserves; 
and Mr. W. S. Reeves is now in the Washington University 
Base Hospital, Unit 21, in France. Dr. G. W. Freiberg, Re- 
search Assistant to the Garden, 1916-17, and Mr. J. W. 
Severy, Teaching Fellow, 1915-17, are also with the Wash- 
ington University Base Hospital Unit. 
