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may prescribe, every day except Sundays: though the will 

 subsequently provides that it may be open on two desig- 

 nated Sunday afternoons during the summer season. 



In connection with the Botanical Garden, and, as his 

 will declares, in order to augment and perpetuate its use- 

 fulness, Mr. Shaw established and endowed in October, 

 1885, nearly four years before his death, a School of Bot- 

 any as a department of Washington University in this city : 

 to that extent anticipating by deed the bequests in his will, 

 which bears date in January, 1885. The objects of the 

 School of Botany are declared to be, — 



" the promotion of education and investigation in that science, and in 

 its application to Horticulture, Arboriculture, Medicine and the Arts, 

 and the exemplification of the Divine wisdom and goodness as mani- 

 fested throughout the vegetable kingdom." 



To secure their harmonious co-operation in these pur- 

 poses, it is required that whenever practicable a Professor 

 of the School of Botany shall be the Director of the Botan- 

 ical Garden; and the Trustees of the Garden are required, 

 up to a certain amount, to make good any deficiency in the 

 annual income of the School of Botany from its endow- 

 ment. 



The Botanical Garden, as laid out and maintained by Mr. 

 Shaw himself, is part of a tract of about 150 acres in all, 

 on Tower Grove Avenue in the southwestern part of this 

 city : of which about 45 acres is occupied by the Botanical 

 Garden, the Arboretum and Fruticetum, including the 

 Museum building and the late residence of Mr. Shaw, which 

 last, under the provisions of the will, is now the residence 

 of the Director of the Garden ; but the will contemplates 

 and provides for the ultimate extension of the Garden over 

 the remainder of the tract. The fund devised for the 

 maintenance and extension of the Garden, and for the 

 educational and scientific purposes already mentioned, 

 consists chiefly of real estate in this city, a considerable 

 part of which is improved, yielding an income sufficient 

 for the immediate demands of the trust, and likely to be 



