22 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



observe that even the latter shows a far more rapid propor- 

 tionate rise than does Mr. Robert Moore's population curve 

 for the city*, which is here plotted (5) on a scale of one-tenth, 

 for comparison. 



These curves seem to show that the week-day visitore have 

 doubled in the past ten years, and that, apart from those 

 who come to see the specially announced tulips and chrysan- 

 themums, the Garden as a whole is not only holdint^ its own in 

 attractiveness in comparison with the growth of the city but 

 is gaining in interest greatly beyond the increase in popula- 

 tion; the July visitors having increased 47 per cent in a 

 period during which the population has increased 25 per 

 cent. 



BUILDINGS. 



During the entire period here passed in review, administra- 

 tive, educational and research work at the Garden have been 

 carried on with maximum economy of expenditure. When 

 the Board assumed the care of the institution the Director's 

 office was established in his residence and the dilapidated 

 little museum collection which had been maintained in the 

 building erected for such use in 1859 was replaced by the 

 enlarged library and herbarium— for the original accommoda- 

 tion of which small rooms had been set apart when the building 

 was planned. When the city residence of Mr. Shaw was 

 removed to the Garden in ISOlf, the offices, hbrary and 

 herbarium were transferred to it, and the museum building 

 was again free; but before a collection could be displayed in 

 it an overflow had begim, which has caused it to be again 

 filled to the eaves with books and herbarium specimens, as 

 in the case of the rebuilt city home. During this entire 

 period, the only room set apart specifically for laboratory 

 use has been a basement room of the museum building, which 

 was equipped as a phyto-chemical laboratory in 1903t, and 

 as such has since been in constant use. 



* MS., 1906; data published in Journ. Ass. Engineering Socs. 88 ; 299. 



t Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 3 : 7, 15. 



X Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 15 : 31. 16 : 25. 



