MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 93 
ical Society, at the Annex Hotel, May 1, on “The Use of 
Microorganisms in Industrial Chemistry.’’ 
The third annual flower show given under the auspices 
of the Garden Club of St. Louis was held in the floral display 
house at the Garden, May 20 and 21. 
Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Director Botanical Research, Car- 
negie Institution of Washington, Desert Laboratory, Tucson, 
Arizona, visited the Garden May 3-4, and on May 4 gave 
a talk before the annual meeting of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta 
Kappa at the Graham Memorial Chapel, Washington Uni- 
versity, on ‘‘Conceptions of the Physical Basis of Life.’’ 
Professor W. L. Howard, of the University of California 
Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley, California, vis- 
ited the Garden May 15-20, working over the herbarium and 
living plant collections of the genus Prunus, of which he is 
making a special study. 
Recent visitors to the Garden include Dr. H. Nakano, pro- 
fessor of botany in the Agricultural College and in the High 
School of Kagoshima, Japan, and Miss Bertha Lutz, seere- 
tary of the National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, and president 
of the Brazilian League for the Emancipation of Women. 
STATISTICAL INFORMATION FOR APRIL, 1922 
GARDEN ATTENDANCE: 
Botal number Of Visitors... 2 ances se ee 27,505 
PLANT ACCESSIONS: 
Total number of plants received as gifts.............. 4 
Total number of seed packets received in exchange.... 1,348 
Total number of plants received in exchange.......... 298 
LIBRARY ACCESSIONS: 
Total number of books and pamphlets bought......... 36 
Total number of books and pamphlets donated........ 134 
HERBARIUM ACCESSIONS: 
By Gift— 
Jenkins, Miss A. E.—Authentic specimen of Sclerotinia 
carunculoides Siegler & Jenkins.................... 1 
Latham, Roy—Peniophora laevigata Fr. from Long 
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