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gardeners to the work of gardening in its proper sense? 
This continent has been without it, and Mr. Shaw has been 
the first to recognize — not the first to discover the fact, 
but the first to recognize in a practical way —the want and to 
supply the deficiency. Mr. Shaw, then, I think has done 
signal service to a very important class, an important por- 
tion of the working class of this American continent, and 
has shown an example to the other States of the Union and 
to your neighbors on the north, in the country from which 
I come. 
But the benefits that Mr. Shaw has conferred do not 
end here. He has provided for the ample prosecution of 
scientific research. He has established in your Washing- 
ton University, as I understand, a chair of Botany. He 
has provided that Botany should be a science always 
taught in the city of St. Louis in your University. 
Botanists may claim, I may say, to be the most grateful 
of all men, on this account. And the botanists, not 
only in this State or in this country, but the botanists 
of the whole world recognize in an act like this that 
a service has been done to Science—a service of a 
permanent kind that they will never fail to remember. 
I must not close without making one remark, and saying 
in that connection, that if Professor Trelease were not here 
I would speak more freely; but I would say to you, gen- 
tlemen Trustees, that I think you have been exceedingly 
fortunate in securing your executive officer. As I have 
said, I only met him last night for the first time, 
but botanists understand each other, and in the course 
of my life I have often been asked to advise as to 
the appointments in connection with botanical gardens 
and universities and putting up university buildings and 
so on, and I must say that I was charmed not only with 
the Garden, but with the thorough, systematic manner 
in which it was being carried on. Not that I have any- 
thing to say as to Professor Trelease’s scientific merits ; 
‘for they are known to the world. But it is very rare, as 
