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The Chairman: Gentlemen, but one word remains, — 

 a word of grateful thanks on the part of the Trustees of 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden for the kindness and court- 

 esy of your presence: especially, — and in this I speak 

 not only for the Trustees, but for all our St. Louis 

 friends, — to those who have manifested their interest in 

 this institution by coming so far and so kindly taking part 

 in this occasion. Let us all hope that this shall be but the 

 first of many Annual Banquets, at each one of which shall 

 be noted constantly increasing progress in the promotion 

 of science and knowledge, with which the name of Henry 

 Shaw, among those of other benefactors of the human 

 race, shall be inseparably connected. 



