REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1890. 
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JAN. 14, 1891. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
In compliance with the resolution of the Board direct- 
ing an annual statement or report to be prepared by the 
President and Secretary for publication, showing the man- 
agement and financial condition of the trust, the following 
statement is submitted, covering the entire period since 
the organization of the Board up to December 31, 1890. 
_ By an act of the General Assembly of the State of Mis- 
souri, approved March 14, 1859, the late Henry Shaw was 
authorized and empowered to convey certain real estate 
and personal property to trustees for the purpose of estab- 
lishing and maintaining a botanical garden ; and by his will, 
dated Jan. 26, 1885, certain real and personal property was 
bequeathed to trustees named therein ‘for the object and 
with the view of having for the use of the public a botan- 
ical garden, easily accessible, which should be forever kept 
up and maintained for the cultivation and propagation of 
plants, flowers, fruit and forest trees, and other produc- 
tions of the vegetable kingdom ; and a museum and library 
connected therewith, and devoted to the same and to the 
science of botany, horticulture and allied objects.’’ 
Mr. Shaw departed this life Aug. 25, 1889, and on Sept. 
10, 1889, seven of the trustees named in the will met for 
consultation. 
The Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden 
was duly organized Oct. 14, 1889 by a majority of the 
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