MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 147 



Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, discussed the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden and botany in the symposium on 

 "What Has Missouri Done for Science in Its One Hundred 

 Years of Statehood?" before the science section of the Wednes- 

 day Club, November 30. 



Visitors to the Garden during December include Professor 

 Walter B. Kelly, professor of agricultural chemistry, Uni- 

 versity of California (Citrus Experiment Station), Riverside, 

 California ; Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Groff, the former, director of 

 agricultural work, Canton Christian College, Canton, China ; 

 Dr. Charles Brooks, pathologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 United States Department of Agriculture ; Professor William 

 G. Pearnsides, professor of geologv, Universitv of Sheffield, 

 Sheffield, England. 



The annual banquet of the Board of Trustees of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden will take place December 28 at the 

 Jefferson Hotel on the occasion of the meeting of the American 

 Historical Association in St. Louis. Chancellor Frederic A. 

 Hall, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Garden, will 

 preside, and the president of the American Historical Asso- 

 ciation, Jules Jusserand, Ambassador of the French Republic, 

 will deliver his presidential address on "The Rearing of 

 Ambassadors." 



The display of orchids at the Garden will be installed about 

 the first of January and will continue throughout the months 

 of January, February, and March. During these months the 

 floral display house will be converted as nearly as possible into 

 a tropical forest in order to represent the natural habitat of 

 orchids. This is the first time this method of display has ever 

 been used in this country. Orchids will be shown growing 

 upon trees as they are to be found in the forests of South 

 America, and terrestrial forms will be planted as undergrowth, 

 shaded by the trees above. The Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 which includes the D. S. Brown collection, is reputed to be 

 the best and largest of its kind in the country. 



