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had this entirely in mind, or he would not have put 
in this clause of his will this reference to natural 
science. He looked further, and saw how the establish- 
ment of the Garden and the sustentation of the botanical 
bureau or chair at Washington University could help in two 
great directions: first, by helping the agricultural depart- 
ment of our own country in providing for botanical inves- 
tigations and so providing for the development of our 
agricultural resources; and, further than that, in provid- 
ing leisure and men of learned leisure who could here in 
_ St. Louis help the rest of the scientific men in the world in 
promoting the investigations which go to make up the 
civilization and the progress of this nineteenth century. 
Let us honor his memory then in remembering that for 
these three reasons, — for innocent recreation, for a sort 
of helpful foundation lessons for the promotion of the best 
interests of the country, and for affording to men of learned 
~ leisure opportunity to continue investigations in the field of 
botanical science, — he has left this munificent benefaction 
- for us here in St. Louis. 
Then, if a man is unselfish, if a man is really unselfish, — 
my brother and I [referring to Dr. Lawson on his right ] 
and a few of the rest of us studied Latin and Greek in old 
times, and now we go off to the field of agriculture or off 
in the direction of preaching, and we do not remember 
either, but I think the old Latin verse was— ‘** Serit 
arbores quae prosint altert saeclo’’ — he plants trees now 
that are to benefit the next generation, and the next and the 
next. If aman is unselfish and a benefactor who does that, 
and if a man is that who makes two blades of grass grow 
where one did before, surely a double, and a treble anda 
fourfold benefactor, in the planting of trees to benefit 
future generations, in the planting of this school of botan- 
ical science to benefit future generations, has Mr. Shaw 
been to us the citizens of St. Louis, and to our nation, 
and we might say to the cause of science throughout the 
whole world. And therefore, may I not feel that I am 
