SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 13 
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR, FOR 1890. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JAN. 14, 1891. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
In accordance with the rules and regulations of the Board, 
I respectfully submit the following report on the condi- 
tion and prospects of the Botanical Garden, and of the 
School of Botany therewith connected. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
By resolution of the Board of Trustees, the Director of 
the Garden is instructed : — 
1. To continue or even augment the present ornamental features of the 
Garden. 
2. To add to its botanical usefulness and interest by the introduction, 
as opportunity offers, of plants representative of the American flora, so 
that, other things being equal, these shall ultimately be largely repre- 
sented and may even preponderate outside of the greenhouses, giving 
then, in the Garden, an epitome of the leading characteristics of our 
native flora. 
8. To carry into execution, as rapidly as possible, a system of cor- 
rectly naming and labeling all plants in the Garden, with the exception 
of such as may be used in ribbon gardening or for other exclusively 
ornamental purposes. 
4. To provide fire-proof quarters for the invaluable herbarium of the 
late Dr. George Engelmann, and to immediately mount it in the proper 
manner, so as to insure its preservation and availability for scientific use. 
Also, to provide for and add to the general herbarium (based on that 
of Bernhardi) now at the Garden, with the special object of ultimately 
making it complete in good representatives of American plants. 
5. To arrange, bind, and index the books and pamphlets at the Garden. 
Also, to provide more ample but equally safe accommodations for the 
library, to bring it up to date as rapidly as possible, to enter subscrip- 
tions for periodical publications, and to keep it abreast of the times, 
and in the most useful form, by the purchase of important publications 
as they shall appear, and by the proper indexing of periodicals and pam- 
phlets. 
6. To secure a botanical museum, containing material needed for 
study or calculated to advance general or special knowledge of botany. 
7. To direct the main energy of research for the present toward assist- 
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