FOURTH ANNUAL BANQUET. 



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Charles Parsons, 

 Professor W. B. Potter, 



Dr. T. F. Prewitt, 

 Dr. Enno Sander, 

 Henry C. Scott, 

 John Scullin, 

 Judge J. A. Seddon, 

 Geo. C. Smith, 

 I. M. Sturgeon, 

 Judge Samuel Treat, 

 Edwards Whittaker, 



of St. Louis 



Gist Blair, 

 J. W. Branch, 

 Chancellor W. S. Chaplin, 



George S. Drake, 

 Henry Hitchcock, 

 D. F, Kaime, 

 R. J. Lackland, 

 George A. Madill, 

 Professor H. S. Pritchett, 

 Bishop D. S. Tuttle, 

 J as. E. Ye atm an, 



Of the Board of Trustees. 

 A. D. Cunningham, 



Secretary of the 



Board of Trustees. 

 William Trelease, 



Director of the Garden. 



At the conclusion of the dinner, the Chairman, Judge 

 George A. Madill, introduced Prof essor George L. Goodale, 

 of Harvard University, who spoke as follows: 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: — Your very cordial 



greeting may be fairly interpreted as an expression of your 

 good will to the ancient University which I have, for the 

 moment, the honor to represent. Permit me to say that 

 the Botanical Department of Harvard reciprocates this 

 good will. Our interest in your affairs is natural and deep. 

 The three professors in the department of botany in 

 Harvard can never forget the solicitude with which their 

 associate and master, Asa Gray, watched the last steps in 

 the transfer of the Shaw trust. When he had assured 

 himself that the Shaw Garden was to be something more 

 than a magnificent personal memorial, that it was to be the 

 repository of the botanical treasures of his life-long friend, 

 George Engelmann, and that it was to be something even 

 more than this, namely, a center of scientific activity, his 

 pleasure knew no bounds. And when a little later he was 

 influential in securing as Director of the Shaw School of 

 Botany, William Trelease, whose sound, practical judg- 

 ment, whose indomitable energy and whose stimulating 

 power of investigation he held in the highest esteem, he 

 felt that the future of the Shaw foundation was secured. 



