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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



Judge J. H. Lightner. 

 Mr. H. N, Patterson. 

 Mr. Carl Lumholtz. 

 Mr. Carlos S. Greeley. 

 Judge S. M. Breckenridgk. 

 Mr. George I. Barnett. 

 Hon. D. H. Armstrong. 



Mr. Chas. E. Hall. 

 Mr. J. E. Kaime. 

 Mr. Wm. H. Thomson. 

 Mr. Robert S. Broo kings. 

 Mr. J. R. Lionberger. 

 Mr. Daniel Catlin, and 

 Mr. E. C. Simmons. 



The Botanical Garden was represented by 



RuFus J. Lackland, 



President of the Board, 



Henry Hitchcock, 



Vice-President of the Board, 



Rt. Rev. D. S. Tuttle, 



Bishop of Missouri, 



Dr. J. B. Johnson, 



A. D, Cunningham, 



Secretary of the Board, and 



Mr. James E. Yeatman, 



Mr. Joseph W. Branch, 



C. F. Miller, 

 President of the Board of Public 

 Schools of St. Louis, and 



Professor F. E. Nipiier, 

 President of the Academy of 

 Science of St. Louis. 



William Trelease, 



Director of the Garden. 



The dinner having been served, the assembled guests 

 were called to order by the Chairman, Henry Hitchcock, 

 Esq., who said: — > / 



Gentlemen: The Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den, and you as their honored guests, are assembled in pur- 

 suance of an express provision in the will of its founder, 

 the late Henry Shaw, bequeathing a certain sum annually 

 *♦ for a banquet to the Trustees of the Garden and to the 

 guests they may invite, literary and scientific men and 

 friends and patrons of the natural sciences." 



To such an assemblage, so convened, an uncommon in- 

 terest attaches. It was obviously the wish of Mr. Shaw 

 that this social gathering should be one means of making 



