REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 9 
other duties as may from time to time be prescribed by 
this Board in pursuance of the trusts declared in said 
will.”’ 
Of the original members of the Board appointed as 
individuals, only three remain in office, Mr. Lackland, 
Mr. Kaime and Mr. Pettus. Mr. Collier resigned in 1889 
because of removal from the city. Judge Treat, because 
of his advanced age, retired in 1890. Mr. Yeatman and 
Judge Madill died in 1901. Mr. Hitchcock, who from 
the first had been Vice-President of the Board and Chair- 
man of its Garden Committee, died in 1902, and Dr. John- 
son and Mr. Branch died in 1903. Vacancies were filled 
for atime by Dr. George J. Engelmann, — elected in 
1889 to succeed Mr. Collier, and resigned because of 
removal from the city in 1895, and Mr. George 8. Drake, — 
elected in 1890 to succeed Judge Treat, and resigned in 
1895. Membership in the Board is now held further by 
Mr. Leonard Matthews, — elected in 1895 to succeed Mr. 
Drake, Dr. John Green, — elected in 1896 to succeed Dr. 
Engelmann, Mr. John F. Shepley, — elected in 1901 to 
succeed Mr. Yeatman, Mr. Edwards Whitaker, — elected 
in 1902 to succeed Judge Madill, Dr. D. S. H. Smith, — 
elected in 1902 to succeed Mr. Hitchcock, Mr. George C. 
Hitchcock, — elected in 1903 to succeed Mr. Branch, and 
Mr. Edward C. Eliot, — elected in 1903 to succeed Dr. 
Johnson. 
Bishop Tuttle, who had succeeded the late Bishop 
Robertson before the organization of the Board, is the 
only ex officio member who has met with it continuously 
from the first. Mr. Chaplin, who became Chancellor of 
Washington University in 1891, has served since that time 
as a member of the Board. A number of well known 
gentlemen have further found place on it, from time to 
time, while serving as Mayor of the City, President of 
the Academy of Science or President of the School Board. 
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