34 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Redeemer, January 31, on ‘‘The Relation between Insects and 
Flowers.’’ 
Mr. H. M. Jennison, assistant professor of botany and 
bacteriology at Montana State College, Bozeman, has been 
granted leave of absence and will spend the remainder of the 
college year in the graduate laboratory at the Garden in the 
completion of the work begun several years ago toward a 
doctor’s degree. 
Dr. M. C. Merrill, formerly Rufus J. Lackland fellow at 
the Garden, now professor of horticulture, Utah Agricultural 
College, Logan, has accepted an appointment as dean of the 
College of Applied Arts and as head of the department of 
horticulture of the Brigham Young University. The appoint- 
ment is to take effect July 1. 
An interesting side-light is thrown upon some of Mr. Shaw’s 
financial activities in a reference to the organization of the 
Northwestern Fur Company, to be found in Chittenden’s 
‘‘American Fur Trade of the Far West’’. It is here recorded 
that in 1831 Narcisse Leclere, a former employee of the 
American Fur Company, concluded to try his own hand at 
the business. Leclere was outfitted by Henry Shaw under 
the style of the Northwestern ur Company. Difficulties 
between this company and the American Fur Company began 
almost at once and as a result of various encounters Leclere 
returned to St. Louis and brought suit against the American 
Company. This was finally compromised by paying Leclere 
$9,200. 
