140 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



Boston Society ov Natural HiaTORY, ■» 

 Berkley Street, Boston, Mass., May 3, 1890. | 



Dear Sirs: The undersigned regrets exceedingly not being able to be 

 present at the annual banquet given in honor of Henry Shaw, Founder 

 of your Botanical Garden and the School of Botany. 



Such opportunities are of rare occurrence, and I always desire to take 

 part in them wlienever it is practicable, because I think it the duty of 

 every scientific man to show that he feels grateful to the men who are 

 willing to give for the benefit of science, and to found institutions which 

 cannot but become centres for the eacouragemeut of research and the 

 dissemination of knowledge. 



With great respect for your institution audits founder, I remain, 



Cordially yours, 



Alpheus Hyatt. 



Vanderbilt University, -j 

 Nashville, Tenn., April 25th, 1890. J 



Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of an in- 

 vitation to attend the Annual Banquet to be given in the City of St. Louis, 

 May 26th, in honor of Henry Shaw, the Founder of the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Garden and the Shaw School of Botany. 



I highly appreciate the honor and the interest of the occasion, but re- 

 gret to say that, owing to my engagements at the time, it will be out of 

 my power to attend. It would be a pleasure to attend, and it is meet that 

 all who can should join St. Louis in doing honor to the memory of Mr. 

 Shaw. The benefits of his work and liberal gifts are not confined to your 

 city or State. We in Tennessee and Nashville, in common with the whole 

 country, feel their influence for good, and shall be ever grateful that 

 Botany has had so generous and able a patron. 



Respectfully, 

 . . , Jambs M. Safford. 



State of New York, 

 Office op the State Entomologist, 



Albany, April 30, 1890. 



My Dear Sir: I regret that it will not be possible for me to avail my- 

 self of your kind invitation to attend the banquet to be given on the 2Gth 

 prox., in honor of Henry Shaw, the Founder of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden and the Shaw School of Botany. 



It would afiEord me very great pleasure could I, by ray attendance on 

 the occasion, show, even in some faint degree, my profound veneration 

 for the memory of the man whose delight it has been to make such 

 princely provision for a continuance through all future time of botanical 

 study, under perhaps tlie most favorable circumstances that could possi- 

 bly be devised for its successful prosecution. 



