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spent near several of the principal herbaria of Europe. 

 The results of this work appear in a series of papers pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of 

 Science and the proceedings of other learned bodies, and 

 the botanical press. During his connection with the School 

 of Botany, Mr. Pammel was entrusted by the experiment 

 station of Texas with some important field-work, which, I 

 believe, was very satisfactorily performed, and has formed 

 the basis of one or more official reports ; and he also found 

 opportunity to do several other pieces of good work, the 

 results of which have been embodied in papers published 

 by the Academy, and the botanical and agricultural press 

 of the country. 



Foreseeing that from time to time work of some interest 

 might be expected from the School, I began in 1887 editing 

 a series of "Contributions from the Shaw School of 

 Botany," which are published in the Transactions of the 

 Academy or elsewhere, and of which a limited number of 

 separate copies are reserved, with the intention of issuing 

 them to prominent botanical libraries when enough shall 

 have appeared to make it desirable to bind them together 

 in a single volume, thus ensuring their preservation and ac- 

 cessibility for use by specialists. Up to the present time 

 six papers of this series have been printed, and others are 

 in preparation. 



Realizing very fully the slowness with which scientific 

 work is accomplished, I feel that small as the results in this 

 direction are, they are all that could reasonably have been 

 anticipated-, and the added facilities now offered by the 

 Botanical Garden render it probable that in the future no 

 small amount of useful work may be looked for from the 

 instructors and advanced students of the School of Botany. 

 Owing to the lack of available accommodations at the 

 Garden, where such provision ought to have been made, I 

 was forced, on assuming charge of the School of Botany, 

 to lay the foundation for a general herbarium at the labor- 

 atory of the School. This collection is based on the 



