22 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



Garden pupils, several of whom have availed themselves 

 ihp nrlviloP-e thus afforded of doing extra work in the Colle 



THE GARDEN STAFF. 



Aside from a reduction in the number of persons temporarily 

 employed in both library and herbarium, the only changes 

 in the salaried office force to be reported are the engagement, 

 in the latter part of the year, of Professor Moses Craig as 

 Herbarium Assistant, to succeed Professor J. W. Blankmship, 



had held the post for a year ; and 



Miss Isadore Smoot as Library 



to fill the vacancy reported last year. 



by 



Board, was filled by the honorary appointment to that office 

 of Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, who entered upon it on the first 

 of the succeeding month, and has since devoted to the study 

 of plant diseases such part of his time as could be spared from 

 his nrnfossional ensaeements as a timber expert. 



Mr 



SPECIAL TESTAMENTARY PROVISIONS. 



Qf the annual events explicitly provided for by the will 



Shaw have taken place in 1907. 



flower sermon was preached in Christ Church Cathedral, 

 St.Louis, on the morning of May 12th, by the Right Reverend 

 Robert Strange, Bishop of East Carolina. 



The Trustees' banquet was given at the Southern Hotel, 

 St. Louis, on the evening of November 30th,_ 1907, this date 

 being selected because there were then meeting in St. Louis 

 the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers 

 and the Southwestern Section of the American Mathematical 

 Association; a large proportion of the 181 guests were 

 representative of these two associations. Bishop Tuttle 

 presided, and speeches appropriate to the occasion were 

 made by Professor C. M. Woodward, of Washington Univer- 

 sity, Professor C. A. Waldo, of Purdue University, Professor 

 H. E. Slaught, of the University of Chicago, Professor E. R. 

 Hedrick, of the University of Missouri, and Honorable C. P. 

 Walbridgc, of St. Louis. 



