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sity of Kansas after two years of efficient service as Cata- 

 loguer in the Garden library. 



In March I had the pleasure of representing the Garden 

 at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the found- 

 ing of the Academy of Science of St. Louis; and in April, 

 by direction of the Board of Trustees, I had the further 

 honor of officially representing the Garden at the Franklin 

 bicentennial celebration in Philadelphia, under the aus- 

 pices of the American Philosophical Society. Publications 

 commemorative of both of these events have been placed 

 in the Garden library. 



SPECIAL TESTAMENTARY PROVISIONS. 



Three special events provided for by the will of Mr. Shaw 

 have taken place in 1906, as follows:— 



The annual flower sermon was preached in Christ Church 

 Cathedral, St. Louis, on the morning of May 20th, by the 

 Right Reverend Davis Sessums, Bishop of Louisiana. 



The Trustees' banquet was given at the Southern Hotel, 

 St. Louis, on the evening of Saturday, May 5th, 1906, a 

 considerable number of the 140 persons present being mem- 

 bers of the Classical Association of the Middle West and 

 South, which was then meeting in the city. Mr._ Chaplin 

 presided, and speeches appropriate to the occasion were 

 made by Dean A. F. West of Princeton University, Presi- 

 dent R. H. Jesse of the University of Missouri, Professors 

 W. G. Hale of the University of Chicago, M. S. Slaughter 

 of the University of Wisconsin, W. W. Kelsey of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan and Walter Miller of Tulane University, 

 and Mr. F. W. Lehmann of St. Louis. 



The seventeenth gardeners' banquet was given at the 

 Hotel Jefferson, St. Louis, on the evening of August 14th, 

 1906. There were present 155 persons, of whom about 

 one-half were members of the American Apple Growers' 

 Congress, which was then holding its fourth annual meet- 

 ing. The Director of the Garden presided. After dinner 

 speeches were made by Hon. H. N. Dunlap, of Savoy, 

 Illinois, President of the Congress; Mr. James Gurney, 



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