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NOTES 



Recent vistors to the Garden include Mr. A. I). Taylor, 

 landscape architect of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. Lyman Carriere, 

 Agronomist,, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture; Dr. Olaf Arrhenius, plant physiologist, Stock- 

 holm, Sweden; Professor Kingo Miyabe, Professor of Botany 

 and Director Botanic Garden, Hokkaido Imperial University, 

 Sapporo, Japan; Dr. E. J. Butler, Director of the Imperial 

 Bureau of Mycology, Kew, England; M v . M. Shapovalov, of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry. U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, and Dr. C. V. Piper, of the V. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The -Inly number of Parks and Recreation contains an 

 article on "Indoor Plant Collections al the Misouri Botanical 

 Garden," by Mr. (i. II. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, 

 and one en "Hardy Herbaceous Plants for Parks.'' by Mr. 

 L. P. Jensen, Aboriculturist to the Garden. 



Mr. 1j. P. Jensen attended the convention of the American 

 Association of Park Superintendents, Detroit, August 23-25, 

 and presented a paper, August 24, on "The Value of Parks to 

 Posterity." He was elected a member of the Board (if Direc- 

 tors of the above association for a term of three years and re- 

 appointed associate editor of Parks and Recreation for a two 

 year term. 



At the meeting of the Pacific Coast section of the American 

 Society of Naturalists in Berkeley, August .".-">. Dr. P. M. 

 Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, presented two papers 

 relating to plant nutrition, as follows: "Some Phases of 

 Metabolism in the Fungi" and "The Effects of Certain Col 

 loids on the Salt Requirements of Seed Plants." 



Dr. G. M. Armstrong, formerly Rufua J. Lackland fellow, 

 who received bis doctorate in botany at the commencement 

 of Washington University in dune, has been appointed instruc 

 tor in botany at the University for 1921-22. 



Students entering upon work in the Graduate laboratory for 



the academic year are as follows: 



Eufus ,/. Lackland Fellows. Mr. Arthur F. Camp. A. B 

 University of California, assistant in plant pathology, Uni- 

 versity of California; Mr. Leo Joseph Klotz. B. S. and M. S. 

 Michigan Agricultural College; Mr. II. R. Rosen, P. S. Penn- 

 sylvania State College, M. S. University of Wisconsin, asso- 

 ciate professor in plant pathology, University of Arkansas; 



