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Gardens at Washington, ‘‘ The United States has not money 
enough to buy that plant.’”” How many men will you find 
of that kind? I only know two. Mr. Hovey, who is rest- 
ing peacefully now, and this Mr. Menand. Between those 
gentlemen, I believe, is to be divided the credit of starting 
nearly all the collections we know at present. I hope, 
gentlemen, that by doing this kind of work, we will be able 
to interest outsiders in our work, and if we do not get them 
quite as thoroughly interested as the late Mr. Shaw, that at 
any rate they will do in a smaller way what that noble 
gentleman did so well and so completely for horticulture 
and for the benefit and betterment of mankind. What he 
has provided in his will is that the good he was doing while 
he was living shall last and be a lasting good as well as an 
enduring monument to himself. 
Mr. Manda was followed by Mr. W. S. Chaplin, Chan- 
cellor of Washington University, who spoke as follows: — 
A few minutes ago I asked the Chairman of the evening 
how long I could speak, or, rather, how long I should 
speak, and he gave me to understand that as I was the last 
speaker I could speak till daylight. I do not intend, how- 
ever, to inflict on you more than a few minutes’ talk. I 
wish to say to you that, when considering whether I should 
come to Washington University or not I, of course, made 
many investigations, and in these investigations I was sorry 
to find that St. Louis was almost an unknown city in the 
part of the country that I come from. I wish to suggest 
right here that whether it is on account of the innate 
modesty of the people of this city, or whether it is because 
this city has not borrowed a great deal of money from the 
Kast, or whatever the reason may be, St. Louis is less 
known, say in New England, than any other great city of 
the west. That I drop just as Iam passing. One of the 
things that I noticed in this investigation which I spoke of 
was, of course, the Shaw bequests, and among them I 
noticed a peculiar provision, one which I believe has not 
