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ures situated therein, all the library and books and paint- 

 ings in said house and museum building, and stuffed birds 

 and animals in said museum building, and the herbaria of 

 dried and prepared plants and specimens therein, all the im- 

 pliments of gardening, horticulture and husbandry, and also 

 all farming utensils, horses, cattle, hogs, poultry, hay, grain, 

 provisions and groceries in and about the said premises, 

 herein first mentioned and conveyed, and the houses, stables, 

 and [3] barns situated thereon. To have and to hold the said 

 real and personel property to them and the survivors of 

 them and their assigns in office forever, in Trust however 

 for the following uses, and purposes, as joint tenants in 

 common, to wit. Whereas I have for many years been en- 

 gaged in laying out and establishing a Botanical Garden, 

 with a museum and library connected therewith upon a por- 

 tion of the tract first described, and which is now known as 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden, with the design at the time 

 of my death to convey the same with other property to 

 Trustees for the object and with the view of having for the 

 use of the public a Botanical garden easily accessible, which 

 should be forever kept up and maintained for the cultiva- 

 tion and propogation of plants, flowers, fruit and forest 

 trees, and other productions of the vegetable kingdom; 

 and a museum and library connected therewith, and devoted 

 to the same and to the science of Botany, Horticulture, 

 and allied objects; and whereas as a means of enabling me 

 more effectually to secure the object I have in view, and 

 to preserve the same to the use and enjoyment of the pub- 

 lic for all time, the General Assembly of the State of Mis- 

 souri did pass an act, entitled an act to enable Henry Shaw 

 to convey and devise to Trustees certain lands which was ap- 

 proved of on the 14th day of March 1859 ; and as it was with 

 the design of carrying out the purpose and object upon which 

 I have been so long engaged, and availing myself of the 

 power given me in said act so far as necessary. I have 

 herein given, devised and bequeathed to said Trustees the 

 property herein specified; I do now declare the uses, pur- 



