20 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN* 



come my botanical assistant at the Garden. Since the 

 beginning of the present college year, I have been assisted 

 at the School by Mr. Charles H. Thompson, who came to 

 the School from the Kansas Agricultural College. During 

 the college year 1892-3, three special students met at the 

 Garden for systematic work, and two special students were 

 provided for at the laboratory through the year, and two 

 others during a part of the year. One advanced student 

 from a distance spent the summer at the Garden in a study 

 of economic mycology. In the spring term, a class of 

 eight teachers was occupied at the laboratory of the School 

 with a study of native flowers, under the charge of Mr. 

 Smith ; and through the same term I conducted a class of 

 fifteen teachers at the Garden, for a study of trees. A 

 class of twenty-five children was also taught at the Garden 

 by Mrs. F. W. Wislizenus, through the spring. Through- 

 out the year the undergraduate classes of the University 

 were taught by nyself and Mr. Smith, the laboratory w T ork 

 being left largely in his hands. 



In the first paragraph of the second clause of Henry 

 Shaw's will, certain property is bequeathed to Washington 

 University, " the income of which is to be used solely for 

 the maintenance of a School of Botany ; said income to be 

 used exclusively to pay the salaries, and to defray the 

 necessary incidental expenses of those engaged in botanical 

 instruction, and researches at the Garden, and as need may 

 require also within the precincts of the University ; also for 

 the maintenance of the requisite botanical laboratories, and 

 their equipment with instruments and appliances for illus- 

 tration and investigation, for the maintenance and increase 

 of a botanical library and herbarium; and for such like 

 objects strictly german to a School of Botany." * To 

 secure harmonious co-operation of the School with the 

 Garden, Mr. Shaw, in the second paragraph of the same 

 clause, requires that the professor and teachers in the 



* Garden Report for 1890, page 36. 



