TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



SUBMITTED TO THE TEiUSTEES JANUARY 13, 1909. 



To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 



The following report on the Missouri Botanical Garden and 

 the School of Botany therewith connected is respectfully sub- 

 mitted, in comphance with your rules. 



The completion of the twentieth fiscal year of the Board's 

 administration (the first year comprising the last four months, 

 only, of the calendar year 1889), causes me to make this report 

 generally retrospective, in addition to reporting in detail on the 

 year just closed. For comparison, apart from the detailed 

 statement annually submitted and pubHshed in the Report of 

 the Garden, special reference is made to the first volume of the 

 Report,* which gives at length theearher history of the estab- 

 lishment; to the eighth, t tenth t and fifteenth § administrative 

 reports, which are comparative; and to the seventeenth^ report 

 of the Officers of the Board, which passes in review the years 

 1889 to 1904. , 



In addition to the declaration of purposes in Henry fehaw s 

 will,*' in the deed conveying certain property to Washington 

 University for the support of the School of Botanyf' and the 

 acceptance of the same by the University authorities,!' and in 

 the program outUned for the School of Botany when opencd,§* 

 the policy of the Board and the plans of the Director have 

 been set forth at some length, though necessarily in general 

 terms, in the first, eighth, and seventeenth administrative 

 reports.*' Year by year during the two decades now closed, 

 these purposes and policies have been passed in thoughtful 



* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1. (1890). \ I. c. ^ ', 12-50. (1897). 



X I. c. 10 : 12-34. (1899). § I. c 15 : 13-37. (1904). 



t L c. 17 : 7-27. (1906). *' l-di 29-55. (1890). 



t' l.c.l: 56-58. t' I.e. li 59-62. 



5' i c 1 : 63-83. *' l.c.l: 92-98. 8 : 37-46. 17 : 23-24. 



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