MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 95 
NOTES 
Prof. Etienne Foéx, Director of the Plant Pathology Sta- 
tion, Paris, France, visited the Garden, August 23, during 
his tour of this country. 
Mr. C. R. Hursh, formerly Rufus J. Lackland fellow, has 
been appointed assistant pathologist on rust investigations at 
the University of Minnesota. 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, was elected 
Vice-President of the National Association of Gardeners at 
its recent convention in St. Louis. 
Mr. L. P. Jensen, Arboriculturist to the Garden, attended 
the convention of the American Association of Park Superin- 
tendents, at Louisville, September 9-11. 
Mrs. Adele Lewis Grant, formerly Teaching Fellow in the 
Henry Shaw School of Botany, has accepted a position as 
instructor in botany at Cornell University. 
Dr. Norma E. Pfeiffer, of the University of North Dakota, 
spent several days at the Garden recently in connection with 
her monographic studies of the genus Isoetes. 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, 
visited the Coastal Botanical Laboratory, Carnegie Institu- 
tion, Carmel, California, during the summer. 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, 
addressed the Association of Engineering Societies at San 
Francisco, September 1, on ‘‘ Wood Preservation.”’ 
Mr. George M. Armstrong, Rufus J. Lackland fellow, was 
employed during the summer on a study of the nematode dis- 
ease in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 
Dr. Takashi Matsumoto, who took his doctorate in botany 
at the commencement of Washington University in June, will 
sail for Europe, October 6, where he will spend six months 
before returning to Japan. 
Dr. W. B. Brierly, mycologist to the Rothamsted Experi- 
ment Station, Harpenden, England, who was in this country 
at the invitation of the Phvtopathological Society, stopped 
over in St. Louis, September 9-10, to visit the Garden. 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, was awarded 
a gold medal by the National Association of Gardeners for the 
