36 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



that from year to year the institution shall grow up in effi- 

 ciency in promoting the ends in view in its inception,* and the 

 corollary that such efficiency must always result largely 

 from his official associates. To them are due directly im- 

 provements in gardening methods and design, increase in the 

 variety and attractiveness of plants cultivated, adaptation of 

 this collection to the purposes of education and research, care 

 of the enormously enlarged library and herbarium adequate 

 to their preservation and utiUzation, and personal aid ren- 

 dered to the hundreds of visitors and correspondents whose 

 botanical and horticultural questions are answered each year. 

 That few of these collaborators could be retained in positions 

 commensurate with their maturing qualifications for filling 

 them has been our misfortune rather than theirs, but it is 

 gratifying to know that their services while here not only 

 resulted in the specific ends contemplated, but have also 

 largely contributed to their own advancement. In the year 

 just closed, three such losses have been experienced. At its 

 beginning Dr. Harris, who had served as Hbrarian since 1904, 

 withdrew, to devote his entire time to research work with the 

 Carnegie Institution; and towards its end Dr. Hus, who had 

 spent three years in experimental work at the Garden, accepted 

 an instructorship in the botanical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. The position of Library Cataloguer which 

 Miss Smoot had held efficiently for over a year was also re- 

 linquished in the autunm, and her duties, with responsible 

 care of the library, have been assumed by Miss Cora Hogan, 

 who had famiUarized herself with them under Miss Smoot's 

 direction during the earlier part of the year. 



The professional activity of the Garden staff during the past 

 five years is indicated in a list of publications to which refer- 

 ence has already been made, 107 of the 153 recorded titles 

 being those of pubUcations by employees or pupils of the 

 institution. 



MAINTENANCE EXPENSE, 



The expenditures for maintenance of all departments of the 

 Garden, as tabulated in the annual statements of the Secretary , 



* Kept. Mo. Bot. Card. 1 : 35. 



