DEED FROM HENRY SHAW TO WASHINGTON 

 UNIVERSITY. 



(acknowledged and recorded OCTOBER 14, 1885.) 



This deed, made and entered into this twenty third day 

 of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty five, by 

 and between Henry Shaw, of the City of St. Louis, State 

 of Missouri, and Washington University (a corporation 

 created and existing under the laws of the State of Missouri 

 and located in the City of St. Louis ), witnesseth : Whereas 

 the said Henry Shaw has established, maintained and kept 

 open for the use of the public for many years, the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden located in said City of St. Louis, and 

 desires to augment and perpetuate its usefulness by endow- 

 ing a school of botany as a department of said Washington 

 University : And Whereas said Washington University has, 

 by appropriate action, established a school of botany as a 

 special department of said University under and by the 

 name of the ♦' Henry Shaw School of Botany " and has 

 also established a Professorship of Botany which is to be 

 known as the " Engelmann Professorship " ; and Whereas 

 by the action establishing the said school of botany the 

 same is placed under the special care and direction of a 

 managing committee of five members, of whom two are to 

 be members of the Board of Directors of said Washington 

 University, two are to be selected outside of such Board, 

 and the remaining one is to be the Chancellor of said 

 University: Now therefore, in consideration of the 

 premises and the sum of One Dollar to him paid, the said 

 Henry Shaw has granted, bargained and sold, and does by 

 these presents grant, bargain and sell, convey and 

 CONFIRM unto the said Washington University, forever, the 

 following described real estate lying and being in the City 

 of St. Louis, State of Missouri, that is to say ; A certain 



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