22 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
the Garden thus far, the instrumental equipment of the 
School of Botany being found available for all necessary 
use by the few Garden employees and pupils, and, as yet, 
no properly equipped permanent laboratory rooms have 
been provided, adequate temporary provision being made 
in the herbarium building and the plant-houses for such 
work as has been undertaken. While in some respects 
much remains to be done, such facilities as have been 
secured thus far have been placed at the disposal of investi- 
gators, of whom one or more have occupied tables at the 
Garden for a period of from one month toa year, each 
season for several years past, three such investigators 
having been accommodated at the Garden during the current 
autumn and winter. By direction of the Board, a general 
announcement is made, by a widely distributed circular, in 
the early part of each year, that such facilities as the Gar- 
den possesses or can readily acquire for any worthy piece 
of investigation, are freely placed at the disposal of com- 
petent investigators. 
For three years the Garden subscribed for a table at the 
Marine Biological Laboratory, at Wood’s Holl, Massa- 
chusetts, as a means of securing the use of facilities for 
seaside study that it was impracticable to obtain otherwise, 
and the table was used during the summers through this 
period by Professor M. A. Brannon, who was thus enabled 
to accomplish an interesting and valuable piece of work on 
the life-history of one of the marine algae; but as no em- 
ployee of the Garden could be spared for summer work at 
the sea-shore, it was deemed best, in 1895, to withdraw 
this subscription and apply the money directly to the home 
needs of the Garden. 
While, for the reasons already stated, which have neces- 
sitated the most economical management possible of the 
Garden, the organization which has been effected has been 
the simplest which would insure the efficient maintenance 
of the grounds and a reasonable growth in the library and 
herbarium, the explicit statement of Mr. Shaw, in the fifth 
