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MISSOURI BOTANICAL G^ABDEN. 



PROCEEDINGS AT THE FIRST ANNUAL BANQUET 



GIVBN BY THB TRUSTEES OP THE GARDEN AT THE SOUTHERN HOTEL 

 MAY 26th, 1890. 



Under the provisions of the twenty-fourth paragraph of 

 the fourth clause of Henry Shaw's will, the Trustees of the 

 Garden issued invitations in the early part of the present 

 year, for the first annual banquet in honor of the Founder 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Shaw School of 

 Botany. In response to these invitations, a company of 

 about one hundred gentlemen assembled at the Southern 

 Hotel, in St. Louis, on the evening of May 26th. 



The gathering included the following guests : — 



Hon. David R. Francis, 



Governor of Missouri. 



Brigadier-Gen'l Wesley Mer- 

 RiTT, U. S. A., Commanding the 

 Department of Missouri. 



Hon. Norman J. Colman, 



Ex-Secretary of Agriculture. 



Hon. Amos M. Thayer, 



United States District Judge. 



Hon. Warwick Hough, 

 Ex-Judge of the Supreme Court 

 of Missouri. 



Hon. R. E. Rombauer, 

 Judge of the St. Louis Court of 

 Appeals. 



Hon. Jacob Klein, 

 Hon. D. D. Fisher, and 



Hon. J. E. Withrow, 

 Judges of the Circuit Court, City 

 of St. Louis. 



Hon. J. C. Normile, 

 Judge of the Criminal Court, and 



Hon. R. a. Campbell, 

 Judge of the Court of Criminal 

 Correction, of St. Louis. 



Hon. G. a. Finkelnburg. 



F. H. Snow, 

 Chancellor of the University of 

 Kansas. 



W. W. Smith, LL. D., 

 President of Randolph-Macon 

 College. 



Rev. J. D. Hammond, 

 President of Central College, 

 Fayette, Mo. 



Professor W. G. Fablow, 



Of Harvard University. 



Professor E. M. Shepard, 

 Of Drury College, Springfield, Mo. 



Professor G. D. Purinton, 



Of the University of Missouri. 



Professor W. A. Kellerman, 

 Of the Agricultural College of 

 Kansas. 



