10 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
M. A. University of Wisconsin, formerly extension patholo- 
gist, Bureau of Plant Industry; W. H. Chambers, B. S. and 
M. S. University of Illinois, formerly assistant in dairy bac- 
teriology, University of Illinois; C. R. Hursh, B. 8. Univer- 
sity of Missouri, recently assistant pathologist, Bureau of 
Plant Industry ; E. B. Payson, B. A. University of Wyoming ; 
and F. 8. Wolpert, A. B. University of Montana, formerly 
assistant in botany, University of Montana. 
Other appointments for the same period were as follows: 
Joanne L. Karrer, B. S. University of Washington, 1915, M. 
S. University of Washington, 1916, teacher of biology and 
chemistry in Puyallup High School, 1918, reappointed second 
year, teaching fellow, Washington University ; Adele Lewis 
Grant, B. S. University of California, 1902, teacher at Fresno 
Normal Summer School at Huntington Lake, California, A. 
M. Washington University, 1919, reappointed second year, 
teaching fellow, Washington University; and R. W. Webb, 
B. S. Clemson College, 1918, and A. M. Washington Univer- 
sity, 1919, research assistant. 
Graduate students terminating their connection with the 
Garden after receiving degrees were as follows: Mr. Alexan- 
der Lurie, to enter commercial floricultural work in Ann 
Arbor, Michigan; Professor R. A. McGinty to return to the 
Colorado State College as associate professor of horticulture, 
Fort Collins, Colorado; and Dr. Henry Schmitz to accept a 
position as assistant professor of forestry in the University of 
Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. 
At the commencement of Washington University, June 12, 
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon Henry 
Schmitz, with a thesis on ‘‘Studies in the Physiology of the 
Fungi. VI. The Relation of Bacteria to Cellulose Fermenta- 
tion Induced by Fungi, with Special Reference to the Decay 
of Wood.’’ The degree of Master of Arts was conferred 
upon the following: Adele Lewis Grant, with a thesis, ‘‘ Pre- 
liminary Study of the Morphology and Taxonomy of Mimu- 
lus’’; Alexander Lurie, with a thesis, ‘‘Mosaic Diseases in 
Plants’’; R. A. McGinty, with a thesis, ‘‘ Diastase Activity in 
Relation to Stage of Development and Carbohydrate Content 
of the Tuber of Solanum tuberosum’”’; and R. W. Webb, with 
a thesis, ‘‘Studies in the Physiology of the Fungi. X. Germ- 
ination of the Spores of Certain Fungi in Relation to Hydro- 
gen Ion Concentration.’’ 
Publications and Papers.—The various papers which have 
been published during the year either in the ANNALS or in 
