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of a number of species new to science, several of which have been 
named in honor of their discoverer. This niaterial has been submitted 
to Professor Chas. H. Peck, so it is authoritatively named. 
In 1906 a list of this collection was published by the St. Louis 
Academy of Science.** The specimens are mostly in Dr. Glatfelter’s 
private herbarium. Collecting has also been done in Pennsylvania in 
1899, 1905 and 1906, and somewhat in other states. The herbaceous 
herbarium has been increased by exchanges, so that it numbers over 
4,000 species. Dr. Glatfelter is a member of the local botanical so- 
cieties and is still collecting the fleshy fungi, to which he is giving most 
of his attention. 
The more sent botanical workers of St. Louis we find grouped 
into two distinct bodies ; the staff of the Shaw School of Botany, and of 
the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the investigators of the Mississippi 
Valley Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
In the former group, which has existed for the longer time, the follow- 
ing persons should be mentioned: Dr. William Trelease, director of 
the Missouri Botanical Garden since the death of Mr. Shaw, and also 
professor of botany in the Shaw School of Botany. Besides adminis- 
tering the affairs of these two institutions, and bringing them to their 
present development and efficiency, he has published many scientific 
papers; the earliest ones were concerned with fungi and various plant 
diseases ; then the pollination of flowers was taken up; and of late years 
his work has been in the systematic revision of certain groups, such as 
the genera Acer, Rumex, Yucca, etc. Under his management the bo- 
tanical garden has issued eighteen annual reports of scientific material, 
which have given that institution a name for scientific research, al- 
though it can hardly even yet be said to have fairly emerged from the 
preparatory stage of its development. Associated very closely with 
Doctor Trelease since 1894 is Mr. H. C. Irish, who has had general 
charge of the grounds, greenhouses and outdoor planting. Mr. Irish 
has published papers on horticultural subjects, including a scientific 
revision of the genus Capsicum, and of the “ garden bean,” and has 
in preparation another extensive paper along similar lines. Mr. C. H. 
Thompson has been connected with the garden for a number of years, 
and is engaged also upon scientific investigations. Dr. J. A. Harris, 
librarian of the garden, has published a number of scientific papers, 
and is engaged upon others, in the preparation of which the extensive 
and excellent library facilities of the garden are being fully employed. 
Others who have been connected with the garden staff, and who are now 
well known scientifically, are Dr. L. H. Pammel, Dr. H. J. Webber and 
* Glatfelter, N. M., “Preliminary List of Higher Fungi rage in the 
Vicinity of St. Louis, Mo., from 1898 to 1905,” Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 
16: 33-94, 1906. 
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