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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 19 
sentative florists, nurserymen and market gardeners of the 
vicinity, and officers and representatives of several state 
and national horticultural organizations. 
The Director of the Garden presided, in accordance with 
the directions of Mr. Shaw’s will. Speeches appropriate 
to the occasion were made by President-elect Patrick 
O’Mara, of the Society of American Florists, Mr. Jared G. 
Smith, in charge of the work of plant and seed introduction 
of the United States Department of Agriculture, Mr. J. J. 
Beneke, in charge of the Chrysanthemum Exhibition of the 
St. Louis Florists’ Club, William Scott, in charge of floricul- 
ture at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition, Mr. A.T. Nel- 
son, of the Missouri Horticultural Society, and Hon. D. R. 
Francis and Mr. Julius C. Birge, of St. Louis. 
As in previous years, the award of premiums for flowers 
and plants was intrusted to the St. Louis Florists’ Club, on 
the occasion of its Chrysanthemum Exhibition, held in the 
Exposition Building, November 14th to 16th, inclusive. 
THE SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 
The undergraduate work of the Henry Shaw School of 
Botany followed essentially the lines in 1900 that have — 
been detailed in earlier reports.* Seventeen electives in 
botany are offered, covering the subject in a symmetrical 
way, as to its essentials, and constituting the equivalent of 
about three full years’ work, preparatory to the perform- 
ance of thesis work in some special subject. The electives 
offered in the last University Catalogue are as follows: — 
1. Elementary Morphology and Organography, with reference to Ecol- 
ogy and Systematic Botany. Lectures and demonstrations. 
. Elementary Anatomy and Phanerogamic Botany. Laboratory work. 
. Synoptical study of the Cryptogams. Laboratory work. 
. A special laboratory study of some group of Cryptogams. 
. Methods of Vegetable Histology. Laboratory work. 
. Histology and Morphology of the Higher Plants. Laboratory work. 
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