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22 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
responsibility in botany or horticulture, for which their 
service here gave excellent training. 
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION. 
Repeated mention is made in Mr. Shaw’s will of his pur- 
pose to have scientific research, no less than decorative 
gardening and _ botanical and horticultural instruction, 
included among the activities of the Garden. Details of 
administration have been left necessarily to the Director in 
consultation with a special Garden Committee of the Board, 
but his purpose to develop the institution symmetrically 
under the broad plan of its founder has always met with 
the support of the Trustees, who have approved his policy 
of not only allowing but expecting a part of the time of 
capable employees to be spent ininvestigation. Though he 
looks forward hopefully to the time when the revenue of the 
Board shall permit the employment at the Garden of a 
corps of highly trained and expert investigators giving a 
large part of their time to such study, he has been able as 
yet to devote to this work only a small part of the time 
of otherwise indispensable employees, the salary apportion- 
ment and incidental expenses for this purpose averaging 
$1,000.83 per year, for the last 12 years. He therefore 
points with pride —and the Board share his gratification — 
to the fact that under existing conditions not a year passes 
without the accomplishment of valuable research work at the 
Garden, and that its publications win commendation for 
their useful contents as well as for the attractive and con- 
venient form in which they are brought out and the 
liberal conditions on which they are furnished to botanical 
libraries and investigators everywhere. The yearly cost of 
publication, including reissues of some of the volumes from 
electrotyped plates which are preserved, has averaged 
$2,000.37, but the Garden’s Reports have given it a stand- 
ing in the scientific world that it could have attained in no 
other way, and by far the largest part of the gifts to the 
