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tage than here? Where can the improvement of all classes 

 of useful plants be better undertaken than here, in the 

 State of Missouri? You will find, if you glance over the 

 whole field, that you have simply to use the appliances 

 which the Shaw income can place within the grasp of your 

 Director, to add largely to the sum of human knowledge 

 and advance the soundest interests of the race. 



Therefore I insist upon it, gentlemen, that this Institu- 

 tion occupies a unique position. It is attached firmly to a 

 sound University that is sure to give it good educational 

 guidance, and to insure the best utilization of its discipline* 

 The Chancellor of your University, a practical man and 

 successful educator, is bound to make every department 

 efficient, and in this prominent, important department he 

 has an excellent coadjutor. The Director is a practical 

 man. There will be no wild schemes started or carried out 

 under him. His plans are and will be well matured, I 

 urge you to co-operate with him in every way. 



You must permit me now to say that I make these sug- 

 gestions, not on account of any complaint which he has 

 made. On the contrary, he has told me that he has been 



may 



come a time in the administration 

 may seem wise to restrict expendit 



matters 



sharply economize. I think in all such 

 times, the one who has these interests most constantly be- 

 fore him, and who has most at stake, namely, the Director, 

 to whom you intrust the administration, should have much 



to say. 



I am afraid you may think from the tenor of my re- 

 marks, that I have ignored the interesting and important 

 relations which exist between the Shaw establishment and 

 the St. Louis public. I should like therefore to express my 

 hearty appreciation of the wisdom and farsightedness shown 

 by Henry Shaw in the organization of this Garden, and the 

 founding of Tower Grove Park, as a place for the public. 

 In these days when there is such a mad rush from the coun- 



