30 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



equipment, with the result that the material resources of the 

 Garden are already large and reasonably well balanced. 

 From the beginning, the fixed policy has been to make all our 

 resources freely available for the use of botanists who must of 

 necessity prosecute their studies elsewhere, and to afford every 

 possible facility to investigators who can spend even a short 

 time at the Garden in rounding out their work. This service 

 has been rendered without charge beyond the expense incident 

 to transporting books and specimens. Inspection of the series 

 of Garden Rei)orts and of the publications of the national 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, gives a partial indication of the 

 extent to which the equipment has been thus utilized. In 

 the year just closed 301 books have been loaned from the 

 library, to 72 persons or institutions; and 19,348 sheets of 

 herbarium specimens, to 31 borrowers. 



By authorization of the Trustees, a botanical research table 

 was maintained in the Marine Biological Laboratory at 

 Wood's Hole for three years, and utilized by an appointee 

 of the Garden; but it was found necessary to discontinue 

 this provision.* 



THE HENRY SHAW SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 



In 1885, four years before the Garden passed under the 

 care of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Shaw endowed a School of 

 Botany in connection with Washington University and de- 

 clared his intention to provide for its intimate relation with 

 the Gardenf, — an intention which he fully carried out.f 

 The property devised, then yielding an annual income of 

 something over $5,000.00 and guaranteed not to fall below 

 $3,500.00 annually, though nominally an endowment of a 

 school of botany, is virtually that of a chair of botany. 



Through the assumption of a large part of the Director's 

 salary by the Garden Board, in 1893 §, it has been made 

 possible for the University to secure adequate and capa- 

 ble associates to relieve him of the details of undergraduate 

 instruction, while the facihties of the Garden have been fully 



* Rept. Mo. Bot. Card. 4 : 16. 5 : 17. (J : 16. 7 : 19. 8 : 22. 

 t ^ c. 1 : 56-59. t I. c. 1 I 36, second clause. § i. c. 6 : 21. 



