REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1891. 
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JAN. 13TH, 1892. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
Since the last annual report many extensive and perma- 
nent improvements to the buildings and grounds have been 
completed, and others are under way, which have necessi- 
tated a large expenditure of money, but the results have 
been eminently satisfactory, and the Garden greatly im- 
proved thereby. 
The reconstruction of the Garden residence of the late 
Henry Shaw, which is now used as a residence by the 
Director of the Garden, and which was about finished at the 
beginning of the past year, has been entirely completed, 
and the building is furnishedin a suitablemanner. Exten- 
sive repairs and improvements to the Museum building, 
and a boiler house and steam plant, costing in the aggre- 
gate about $18,000, have nearly all been paid for during 
the past year. 
Mr. Shaw, in the thirtieth paragraph of the third clause 
of his will, expressed a desire that his late city residence, 
located on the southwest corner of Seventh and Locust 
streets, should be carefully taken down and rebuilt on 
Tower Grove avenue in some convenient location con- 
tiguous to the Garden, for which purpose he left the 
sum of $10,000. As a desirable tenant was secured 
for the premises, on a lease for 100 years, it became 
necessary to remove the building, but as the lowest 
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