REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1905. 
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 10, 1906. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
This report marks the close of the sixteenth calendar 
year of the Board’s administration of the Missouri Bo- 
tanical Garden and of the revenue property devised for 
its support. 
PURPOSES. 
The General Assembly, by an act approved March 14, 
1859, authorized and empowered Mr. Henry Shaw to con- 
vey certain real estate and personal property to Trustees, 
for the establishment of a perpetual fund for the support 
of the Missouri Botanical Garden, to be maintained for 
all time for the use and enjoyment of the public, and as a 
means of education and research in botany, horticulture 
and allied sciences.* Fuller details of Mr. Shaw’s pur- 
poses are contained in his will.f 
TRUSTEES. 
Mr. Shaw died on the 25th of August, 1889, and his 
will was admitted to probate on the second of September 
of thesame year. As Trustees, he designated «* M. Dwight 
Collier, Henry Hitchcock, Wm. H. H. Pettus, Dr. John B. 
Johnson, Adolphus Meier, Wm. G. Eliot who is now Chan- 
cellor of the Washington University, and his successor in 
office, Charles F. Robertson, who is now Bishop of the 
* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1: 26. 
+ Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1329. 
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