iO MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



estant Orphans Home of St Louis, of which J. H. Con- 

 rades is (or was) president the sum of one thousand 

 ($1000) Dollars. 



30th — I hereby give and bequeath to the Methodist 

 Orphans Home, of which Mrs E L Walker is (or was) 

 matron the sum of one thousand ($1000) Dollars. 



3l8t — I hereby give and bequeath to the Young Mens 

 Christian Association of St Louis the sum of one thousand 

 ($1000) dollars. 



32nd — I give and bequeath to Mr James Gurney the 

 head gardener at the Missouri Botanical Garden the sum 

 of three hundred ($300) Dollars; to Constance Strobel, and 

 Michael Savadil each the sum of one hundred & fifty 

 ($150) Dollars, and to my other employees and labourers, 

 who at my decease are, and may have been in my service for 

 five years or more the sum of seventy five ($75) Dollars 

 each. 



33rd — Having provided a mausoleum and tomb in the 

 grove of the Missouri Botanical Garden, my desire is to be 

 buried in the same, and upon which some work remains to be 

 done, which if not finished in my life time, I hereby devise 

 twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars to finish the same (and 

 for other purposes herein mentioned) [23] the work of the 

 mausoleum and monument to be completed if so required 

 agreable to plans in the hands of Mr Geo I Barnett the 

 architect, and also to pay for the grave stone, if so required 

 shortly expected from Munich, Germany. It is also my de- 

 sire that a small brick cottage be provided as a residence for 

 a man to be employed ; whose duty it shall to keep in order 

 the said mausoleum, museum buildino; or buildinors the jirove, 

 and the grounds around, for all time to come, salary to be 

 paid out of the general fund belonging to the said Trust, and 

 said employee to be under the controul of the Director of 

 the garden, same as the other employees of the aforesaid 

 institution. Also out of the devise of twelve thousand dol- 

 lars ; fifteen hundred (1,500) dollars to Mrs Rebecca Edom 

 my aforesaid housekeeper for my funeral expenses, and not 



