50 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
On the conclusion of Dr. Lawson’s address, the Chairman 
introduced Mr. Given Campbell, of St. Louis, who spoke 
appreciatively of Mr. Shaw and his great work for the city 
of his adoption. 
Letters of regret were presented from invited guests 
who had been unable to attend, among whom were Pro- 
fessor E. D. Cope, Editor of the American Naturalist, 
President O. Clute, of the Michigan Agricultural Col- 
lege, Mr. G. Browne Goode, Director of the National 
‘Museum, Professor James Hall, Director of the State Mu- 
seum of New York, Professor W. T. Harris, United States 
Commissioner of Education, Professor E. S. Holden, Di- 
rector of the Lick Observatory, Professor C. H. Peck, State 
Botanist of New York, Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, formerly 
‘Director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment 
Station, Hon. Edwin Willits, Assistant Secretary of Agri- 
culture, and other distinguished scientists. The Chairman 
then introduced Professor C. V. Riley, Entomologist of the 
United States Department of Agriculture, who spoke as 
follows: — 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: —I had hoped not to be 
called upon. I esteem it a privilege and honor to be with 
you to-night, but thoughts crowd so thickly on such an 
occasion that it is impossible to do them justice in condensed 
utterance. Time wings its even course so swiftly, from the 
retrospect, that it is hard for me to realize that over two 
decades have passed since I first became intimate with him 
whose memory and beneficent deeds we meet to com- 
memorate. 
In my early St. Louis days I was drawn both by taste and 
occupation, into the company of men who were generally 
my elders, and it was my good fortune to become intimate 
with many who have made this community and the whole 
country the better for having lived in them. Engelmann, 
Spencer, Wislizenus, Baumgarten, Shumard, Holmes, 
Shaw — not to mention those yet living here — will thus 
