58 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Mr. Carew SANDERS, Mr. A. D. CUNNINGHAM, 
Mr. C. C. SANDERS, Secretary of the 
Mr. Wo. Scuray, Board of Trustees, 
Mr. J. STOCKE, WILLIAM TRELEASE, 
Mr. J. STOCKE, JR., Director, 
Mr. R. TEsson, A §S. Hitcucock, and 
Mr. GrorGE URQUHART, EarRL DouG.ass, 
Mr. A. WALDBart, Botanical Assistants, 
Mr. W. J. WELLHOUSE, J. C. Durrry, 
Mr. J. F. WIndT, Horticultural Assistant, 
Mr. E. Worst, and JAMES GURNEY, 
Mr. W. C. Youne, Head Gardener, 
of St. Louis. J. W. DUNFORD, JR., 
Garden Assistant, and 
CHANCELLOR W. ©. CHAPLIN, and) = TyHomas Doss, 
Mr. D. F. Karmx, of the Missouri 
Trustees, Botanical Garden. 
After a short address of welcome, the Chairman proposed 
the toast of the evening,—to the memory of Henry 
Shaw,—to which Hon. Norman J. Colman responded in 
the following terms : — 
Mr. Chairman: — While partaking of this bountiful re- 
past, I have been thinking what was the object, the motive, 
or intention as you have designated it, of the late Mr. 
Shaw in providing for these annual reunions, for all time 
to come, so that those who are engaged in this profession 
a thousand years hence, if our institutions remain, will 
meet just as we are meeting at this time. I think that his 
motive was not to simply bring us together for the pur- 
pose of enjoying a rich repast, but that he had other and 
higher designs. It was not simply to perpetuate his mem- 
ory, but to advance that noble cause which he had so much 
at heart. It is true that he knew that it was well for kindred 
spirits to meet, and he perhaps desired to establish that 
esprit de corps which should always exist among the mem- 
bers of a great profession, if we may call it such, and which, 
perhaps, is not existing in the force and in the strength 
that it ought to. Mr. Shaw undoubtedly thought that it 
was well to bring those engaged in these pursuits together, 
