- SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 19 
In the spring, Mr. Smith, who had acted as Botanical 
Assistant at the Garden, was appointed to a better paid 
position in the Division of Agrostology of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and in July his place was taken 
by Mr. C. H. Thompson, who had previously acted as 
General Instructor in the School of Botany. Through the 
year Mr. H. C. Irish has served as Horticultural Assistant, 
Miss Grace E. Johnson as artist, Miss Eva M. Reed as 
indexer, and Mr. C. E. Hutchings as amanuensis. 
During the year a small amount of time has been found 
by myself and my principal assistants for research work, 
the results of which, so far as completed, have been con- 
tributed to societies or journals or will shortly be published. 
The table which the Garden‘has maintained for some years 
at the Wood’s Holl Biological Laboratory, was discontinued 
at the end of 1894,.at the wish of the Board. | 
As in previous years, a number of botanists and horticul- 
turists from a distance have visited the Garden and made 
use of its collections, and parts of the herbarium material 
have been sent away for the usé of specialists. 
It has always been my wish, and the intention of the 
Board, that the facilities which are rapidly accumulating at 
the Garden should be as fully used as possible by resident 
and visiting investigators as well as the employees of the 
Garden, and in May last the following circular was dis- 
tributed generally to American botanists and reprinted by 
several of the scientific journals :— 
The attention of botanists is called to the facilities afforded for re- 
search at the Missouri Botanical Garden. In establishing and endowing 
the Garden, its founder, Henry Shaw, desired not only to afford the 
general public pleasure, and information concerning decorative plants and 
their best use, and to provide for beginners the means of obtaining good 
training in botany and horticulture, but also to provide facilities for 
advanced research in botany and cognate sciences. For this purpose, 
additions are being made constantly to the number of species cultivated 
in the grounds and plant houses, and to the library and herbarium, and, 
as rapidly as it can be utilized, it is proposed to secure apparatus for 
work in vegetable physiology, etc., the policy being to secure a good 
general equipment in all lines of pure and applied botany, and to make 
