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with a horticultural assistant, a botanical assistant, an artist, an indexer 
in the library, and an amanuensis. As the facilities for horticultural work 
increase, however, it will be most desirable to make certain that the man 
to whom horticultural investigation is to be intrusted shall bea perma- 
nent employee, — a thing which cannot be counted on under the present 
arrangement,— and I shall shortly propose to the Board that the horti- 
cultural assistant be given to understand that there is a future for him in 
the Garden, if he proves worthy of it, and to promise him a definite 
annual increment in salary; but this is a matter to be considered in 
detail when the time for action comes. It will also be necessary to 
appoint a curator for the herbarium within a few years, with the same 
certainty of increase in salary up to an amount adequate to insure his 
remaining; and a librarian must also be provided. A curator for the 
museum, when established, will also be equally necessary, at least so 
soon as the museum has attained any considerable size. 
Such research work as has been done up to the present time, as I have 
stated above, has been done by the office staff, in leisure hours. With 
the amplification of this staff, it will be possible for each of the appointees 
to become a prominent worker in the line of botany with which his duties 
are most intimately connected, provided he make suitable use of the 
facilities which the Garden is acquiring for investigation; but as time 
goes on, it is certain that the income from the Shaw bequest will make it 
possible to do much more than merely to provide facilities for research 
and to allow men to take from their necessary routine duties a small 
proportion of time for the performance of investigation. Perhaps in the 
entire planning of the future of the Garden there is no other subject 
deserving of so careful thought as this, for mistakes in the plan adopted 
may nullify this, which [ regard as preeminently the opportunity of the 
St. Louis Garden. 
Several ways exist for securing research when facilities are present. 
Material which can safely be loaned can be sent from the Garden to com- 
petent workers, as is now done. Material which cannot be loaned with 
safety can be freely placed at the service of visiting botanists, as is also: 
now done; but I fear that the number of people who will annually visit 
the Garden at considerable personal expense will be comparatively small, 
because of the fact that nearly all investigators are men connected with 
university positions, often on small salary, and with no leisure excepting 
that of their summer vacations. To enable this class of men in any 
considerable number to utilize the facilities, I think that something more 
than merely offering them the facilities will be necessary. The greater 
number of successful colleges of the country have a certain amount of 
money which is each year expended in scholarships for undergraduate 
students. Possibly it may be considered desirable, in the remote future, 
to expend a certain proportion of the Shaw income for the endowment 
of scholarships in the School of Botany, just as has already been done 
for the gardening school maintained at the Garden; but any such ex- 
penditure will bring a class of men who are not prepared for research, 
but who come for preliminary training. In some of the wealthier col- 
