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only a voice giving expression to the determination in the 
hearts of us all that we will, please God, year by year, 
come up to this feast with a determination to keep it in such 
a way as to manifest our warm gratitude for the useful and 
munificent life that the founder of the Garden lived in 
this city of his adoption, and to show cordial honor to his 
cherished memory ? 
It becomes my privilege to propose directly the one 
toast of the evening, and I take the liberty to call upon 
one of our citizens to respond to that toast afterwards, 
Professor Waterhouse of Washington University ; one who, 
so far as I understand,— and you must remember that Iam - 
a new comer in St. Louis, and must pick up the best I can, 
little notes and thoughts of what took place before I came 
here — one who, I think, was personally acquainted in 
earlier years with Mr. Shaw. And perhaps some thought- 
ful suggestions of my brother who is to speak to you, 
lodged as seeds in the already fertile and ready soil of Mr. 
Shaw’s thoughts with regard to establishing the botanical 
chair in Washington University, and preparing for this 
consummation that we have now in the Missouri Botanical 
Garden. 
Gentlemen and friends, I have the honor to propose to 
you,— and may I remark that if you will look in front of 
you you.will find in your glasses some of Mr. Henry 
Shaw’s Port that has been brought here,— I have the honor 
to propose to you the toast of the evening, — The Memory 
of Henry Shaw. 3 
Professor Waterhouse responded as follows :— 
At Agra, in central India, there is perhaps the finest park 
in the world. Itis small, but surpassingly beautiful. Laid 
out with exquisite taste, embellished with numerous fount- 
ains, rich with the varied bloom of a tropic luxuriance, 
and populous with birds of a plumage so brilliant that 
they look like winged gems flitting through the foliage, it 
realizes the classical idea of a paradise. The grounds 
