admitted to exMniination in October, .nnd awarded the 
ccrtiticatc due on completion of tiie four veurs' conrse. 
Three more })upils will h;ive completod the eourso in 
March, 180(), and in November la.-t an announcement, sim- 
ilar to those of previous vear^, wa> i>-.ued, .statimz that two 
of the vacancies will be tilled in the sprin,i? on the result of 
competitive examination, the third Jx-imr reserved for .1 
flualilied nominee of the St. Louis Florists' Chib, in accord- 
ance with the action of the Board in entablishiug free 
schohirships.* 
During the college year 181)4-5 I was assisted by Mr. C. 
H. Thompson as general Instructor, and Mr. O. L. Sim- 
mons as Instructor in cryptogamic botany, Mr. Thompson's 
place being fdled for the year 1895-6 by the a{)pointmeut 
of Mr. ^^\ H. Rush as general Instructor. Undergraduate 
classes were conducted in elementary morphology and 
organography (l)t, elementary anatomy and phanero- 
gamic botany (2), synoptical work with cryptogams (3), 
economic mycology (10-11), garden botany (12-13), and 
vegetable physiology (14). In the spring, a course of ten 
lectures on the >tructure and physiolo^^y of plants, by 
myself, and several courses in phanerogamic botany and 
ptoridophytes. In' Miss A. I. Mulford, were given to spe- 
cial students, at the Garden. In the autumn and winter 
Miss Mulford has continued her excellent work with special 
classes by giving at the Garden and in the public school 
buildings a number of teachers' courses, adapted to the 
science requirements of the public schools, a chrection in 
which I am especially desirous of ha^-ing the Garden facil- 
ities' utilized to the utmost. 
First Report, 95, 
The numbers in parenthesis refer to the numbers by which the 
rses are designated in the last catalogue of Washington UniTersity, 
the Sixth Garden Eeport, pp. 24-5. 
