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and fifteen graduate degrees have been earned 

 in the School of Botany. 



Though a continuation of high special 

 taxes is anticipated for the next few years, the 

 trustees of the garden hope to see the end of 

 this burden before a great while, and in co- 

 operation with the university authorities they 

 are now prepared to make larger research 

 use of the equipment on hand and begin to 

 provide for graduate instruction to a greater 

 extent than has been possible heretofore. 

 Last year a well designed fireproof building 

 of about 12,000 square feet of floor space was 

 put up. A part of this is being furnished in 

 steel for stack purposes, and the remaining — - 

 and larger — ^part is being equipped for labor- 

 atory use. It is now announced that a defi- 

 nite step toward the fuller development con- 

 templated by the founder and planned by the 

 director has been taken in the establishment 

 of the post of plant physiologist at the gar- 

 den, and the creation of a professorship of 

 plant physiology and applied botany in the 

 Shaw School of Botany, with provision for 

 two research fellowships in botany: in addi- 

 tion to the Englemann professorship held by 

 Dr. Trelease, the assistant professorship held 

 by Dr. Coulter, a teaching fellowship to which 

 Mr. C. D. Learn has recently been appointed, 

 and the honorary post of plant pathologist at 

 the garden held by Dr. von Schrenk. 



With this equipment and staff, which are 

 to be gradually increased and are likely to be 

 much enlarged in the near future, it is in- 

 tended to develop research and graduate in- 

 struction and to establish in the broadest 

 sense a course in applied botany, in addition 

 to giving the undergraduate instruction 

 needed in Washington University. 



To the new professorship. Dr. George T. 

 Moore has been called, as possessing to an 

 unusual extent the desired combination of es- 

 tablished reputation, breadth of view and ex- 

 pert appreciation of the economic applica- 

 tions of botany. The research fellowships are 

 open to capable graduate students from any 

 college, and are believed to offer unusual 

 opportunities for the productive use of talent 

 in investigation. The library, herbarium and 

 garden furnish the necessary facilities for the 



most advanced investigation, and the work in 

 the School of Botany is to be so planned 

 that the individual needs of students engaging 

 in research will be met in every way possible, 

 while leading to the customary degrees. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The following new members of the National 

 Academy of Sciences were elected at the meet- 

 ing on April 22, 1909: Professor Joseph S. 

 Ames, Johns Hopkins University; Professor 

 Maxime Bocher, Harvard University; Pro- 

 fessor Oskar Bolza, University of Chicago; 

 Mr. Frank W. Clarke, U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey; Dr. John M. Clarke, Few York State 

 Museum; Professor John M. Coulter, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago; Professor Henry Crew, 

 Northwestern University; Professor Thomas 

 Hunt Morgan, Columbia University; Mr. 

 Waldemar Lindgren, U. S. Geological Survey; 

 Professor Henry L. Wheeler, Yale University. 

 The following were elected foreign associates : 

 Professor Albrecht Penck, Univei-sity of Ber- 

 lin; Professor Gustaf Eetzius, Stockholm; 

 Professor Wilhelm Waldeyer, University of 

 Berlin; Professor Wilhelm Wundt, Univer- 

 sity of Leipzig. 



Dr. Arrigo Tammassia, professor of forensic 

 medicine in the University of Padua, has been 

 created by the king of Italy a senator of the 

 kingdom. 



Professor G. Lunge, of Zurich, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the London 

 Chemical Society. 



The founder's medal of the Eoyal Geo- 

 graphical Society has been awarded to Dr. 

 Stein for his archeological and geographical 

 explorations in Central Asia. The patron's 

 medal has been awarded to Colonel Talbot for 

 his surveys on the northwest frontier of India 

 and in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 



St. Andrews University has conferred its 

 doctorate of laws on Dr. James Wallace, 

 F.E.S., professor of chemistry in University 

 of Edinburgh. 



Dr. George Lincoln Goodale, professor of 

 botany at Harvard University since 1878, will 

 retire from active service at the close of the 

 present academic year. Professor Goodale 



