36 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



Library-, the enlargement, and improvement of the Garden 

 when necessary or advisable, and such other expenditure 

 as from time to time may be found necessary in furtherance 

 of the purposes of this Trust [8] 



Second Clause. Having established maintained and 

 kept open for the use of the public for many years the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, and wishing to perfect my en- 

 dowment of it, and to augment and perpetuate its useful- 

 ness by connecting with it a school of Botany for the 

 promotion of education and investigation in that science, 

 and in its application to Horticulture, Arboriculture, Medi- 

 cine and the Arts, and for the exemplification of the divine 

 wisdom and goodness as manifested throughout the vege- 

 table kingdom. 



First — Wherefore I hereby give and bequeath to the 

 Washington University of St Louis a certain lot of ground 

 with the improvements thereon in Block number twenty 

 seven (27) of the city of St Louis, containing fifty five 

 feet in front on the east side of Second Street by one hun- 

 dred and fifty feet in depth, and bounded north by Greeley, 

 south by (or late) Rankin, east by an alley, and west by 

 Second Street, being the proi)erty acquired of Finney. 

 The income of which is to used solely for the mainte- 

 nance of a School of Botany ; said income to be used ex- 

 clusively to pay the salaries, and defray the necessary 

 incidental expenses of those engaged in botanical instruc- 

 tion, and researches at the Garden, and as need may require 

 also within the precincts of the University ; also for the main- 

 tenance of the requisite botanical laboratories, and their 

 equipment with instruments and appliances for the illustra- 

 tion and investigation, for the maintenance and increase of 

 a botanical library and herbarium ; and for such like ob- 

 jects strictly german to a School of Botany. 



Second — To secure harmonious cooperation I require 

 that the professor or professors in the said School of 

 Botany shall be either the Director of the Missouri Botani- 

 cal Garden, or the person next to him in rank, under what- 



