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has resumed his place as stenographer, after an absence of 
a year anda half. In the library, no changes have been 
made except that Miss Mary A. Norton withdrew at the 
beginning of the year, no appointment being as yet made 
to the vacant position, Miss Eva Perles, as in 1902, con- 
tinuing to give assistance in checking accessions, indexing 
illustrations, etc. During the greater part of the year, in 
addition to the services of an extra mounter, the herbarium 
has received the care of Miss Florence Thiell, who has been 
occupied with the incorporation of newly mounted mate- 
rial, ete. 
SPECIAL TESTAMENTARY PROVISIONS, 
Three annual events provided for in the will of Mr. Shaw 
have taken place, as follows: — 
The annual flower sermon was preached in Christ Church 
Cathedral, St. Louis, on the morning of May 14th, by 
Rev. William A. Guerry, Chaplain of the University of the 
South. 
The fourteenth banquet to the Trustees of the Garden 
and their guests was given at the Southern Hotel, on the 
evening of January Ist, 1904, having been deferred from 
the usual time in May, so that gentlemen in attendance on 
the national scientific meetings, held in St. Louis in Con- 
vocation Week, might be invited. About 240 guests, 
including many distinguished educators and investigators, 
were present. Speeches appropriate to the occasion were 
made by President Carroll D. Wright, of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, Hon. 
David R. Francis, of St. Louis, President David S. 
Jordan, of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Mr. 
Smith P. Galt, of St. Louis, Dr. James Fletcher, of the 
Canadian Central Experimental Farm, the Director of the 
‘Garden, and President Henry S. Pritchett, of the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology. 
