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collegiate year, Mr. H. J. Webber, of the University of 
Nebraska, was secured as assistant, and during the autumn 
has given laboratory instruction in cryptogamic botany to 
an undergraduate class in the University, and in histological 
methods to a small special class, besides taking the principal 
charge of a special class studying the trees and greenhouse 
plants cultivated in the Garden and Park. The remainder 
of his time has been devoted to the necessary routine work 
of the school, including the preparation of specimens for a 
course of lectures which I am giving to the junior class in 
the University, and to special work in comparative histology 
which he is carrying on as a candidate for the Doctor’s de- 
gree in the University. 
The following announcement concerning the School of 
Botany is taken from the forthcoming Catalogue of Wash- 
ington University: — 
HENRY SHAW SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 
ESTABLISHED JUNE 8, 1885. 
Advisory Committee: —The Chancellor of the University, ex officio; 
John H. Lightner; Wm. G. Farlow, M. D.; Geo, J. Engelmann, M. D. 
Instructors: — William Trelease, Engelmann Professor of Botany and 
Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden; H. J. Webber, General 
Assistant; Ellen C. Clark, Assistant at the Mary Institute. 
GENERAL INFORMATION, 
In June, 1885, Mr. Henry Shaw, of St. Louis, authorized the Chancel- 
lor of the University to place before the Board of Directors a plan of 
action for the establishment of a School of Botany, as follows: — 
That he proposed with the concurrence of the Directors, to endow 
a SCHOOL oF Borany as a department of Washington University, by 
donation of improved real estate, yielding over $5,000 revenue, and to 
place it in such relation with the largely endowed Missouri Botanical 
Garden and Arboretum, as would practically secure their best uses, for 
scientific study and investigation, to the professor and students of the 
said School of Botany, in all time to come. 
At the meeting of the Board of Directors held June 8, 1885, the follow- 
ing resolutions were, therefore, offered, in grateful acceptance of Mr. 
Shaw’s proposal: — 
“1. That a School of Botany be established asa Special department of Washing- 
ton University, to be known as the Henry Shaw School of Botany. 
“2, That a professorship of botany be therein established, to be known as the 
Engelmann Professorship. 
