38 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



in 1900* and 1902,t and the subsequent provision of several 

 temporary houses for the growth of chrysanthemums, as well 

 as the maintenance of the North American synopsis since 

 1901, the systematic collection of seeds for exchange since 

 1905,1 and a progressive and notable increase in the wages 

 paid gardeners during the past five years to meet increased 

 cost of living, have caused the original scale of maintenance 

 expenditure to be again reached. Indeed, it is only through 

 undesirable economies that the $30,000.00 mark has not been 

 considerably overstepped every year since 1904 — as it must 

 be from this time on. 



In comparison with the necessarily increasing item for 

 gardening, the other maintenance expenses have remained 

 relatively small and constant. The expenditure on research 

 and the instruction of garden pupils has changed little, 

 year by year, except during the period of Dr. Harris' connec- 

 tion with the library, when the charging of a considerable 

 part of his salary to the former account increased the figures. 

 The amount spent on both library and herbarium have 

 varied more, following greater or smaller additions of books 

 and specimens. The maintenance of the building erected 

 during the year just closed must appreciably increase the 

 future fixed charges on both the library and the herbarium 

 account, to which I hope to see laboratory expenses added. 

 Because of the large proportion of the Director's salary so 

 charged, the office expenses have always been relatively large, 

 but they have run fairly uniformly until 1907, when a readjust- 

 ment of this larger item carried them to a higher level, which 

 they are likely to follow for some years with little change. 



The relation of values to total expenditure on the library 

 and herbarium would afford an interesting detailed study, 

 but this is reserved for a future analysis. It is sufficient to 

 state here that Mr. Shaw's purpose to estabhsh exchange re- 

 lations between the Garden and other scientific establish- 

 ments — thus far effected mainly through the annual Report 

 of the Garden, the seeds gathered for distribution to corre- 

 spondents, and occasional accumulations of Hving plants and 



*?.c. 12:13. fZ.c. 14:14. 



tl. c.n i 29. 18 : 14. 19 : 12. 20 : 14. 



