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GRADUATE STUDENTS AND INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS 
ENROLLED DurinG 1932 
In addition to the members of the Botanic Garden Staff, eight 
graduate students and independent investigators were engaged it 
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carrying on botanical research in the laboratories of the Garden. 
Mrs. Marie I. Conklin has continued her investigations on the 
bacteria which form the tubercles on the wild legumes. She has 
practically completed certain | 
yhases of her work, and she plans on 
utilizing the d 
ata as the basis of a Master’s thesis at Columbia 
University. 
Mrs. Mary Ellen Peck Churchill continued her studies on the 
inheritance of certain characters in peas. She grew additional 
second and third generations in order to determine the mode of 
inheritance of certain seed characters. 
Mr. Charles I. Doney is enrolled at New York University for 
a Master’s degree, taking botany as his major subject. His special 
problem is concerned with the ornamental shrubs of the 
Garden, He 1s preparing a thesis on the genus Staphylea. 
Mr. Charles A. Finnegan was enrolled at New York University 
during the first part of the year. Ile has undertaken a study of 
the broadleaved trees of the Botanic Garden. 
Mr. Samuel Kaiser, a member of the Staff of the Department 
f Biology of Brooklyn College, utilized some land in the experi- 
mental field for growing peppers. 
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Ile is engaged on the problem 
of the inheritance of size and form in the fruits of these plants. 
Miss Elva Lawton, an instructor in the Biology Department of 
[lunter College, continued her investigations on regeneration and 
polyploidy im ferns. 
Miss Mollie Sobel, a teacher of Biology at Abraham Lincoln 
High School, completed her study of the longevity of the smut 
spores, and utilized the data as the basis of a thesis for the Master’s 
degree at Columbia University. 
Mr. Hans I. Vollert 1s enrolled at New York University for the 
degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Ele 1s majoring in plant pathol- 
ogy, making a special study of the cultural characteristics of cer- 
tain smuts. [lis minor is entomology, with special reference to 
the thrips on the iris and gladiolus. Mr. Vollert is a graduate of 
the University of Leipzig, and he also has the equivalent of the 
degree of Master of Science from that Institution. 
