TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 21 



RESEARCH AND THE USE OF FACILITIES. 



The long-established policy of making the facilities of the 

 garden available to investigators has been taken advantage 

 of by a number of visiting botanists. During the year 19,771 

 herbarium specimens have also been loaned to 26 investi- 

 gators who were unable to visit Saint Louis or who could not 

 complete their use of material at the Garden ; and 360 books 

 or pamphlets have been loaned similarly to 73 persons. 



As in previous years, such part of the time of capable 



number 



given 



in g its results. 



THE HENRY SHAW SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 



One of the most cherished purposes of the founder of the 

 Garden was the provision of means and appliances for in- 

 struction in botany — referred to by him not merely as a 

 specific science but "in its application to horticulture, arbori- 

 culture, medicine and the arts," 6 and with special mention 

 of "vegetable physiology, the diseases of plants, the study of 

 the forms of vegetable life and of animal life injurious to 

 vegetation, experimental investigations in horticulture, 

 arboriculture, etc." 7 Inaugurated before Mr. Shaw's death 

 by the endowment of a School of Botany as a special depart- 

 ment of Washington University 8 with provision for the 



affiliation 



d 



from 



income 



maintenance 



augmentation 



instruction 



has necessarily rested, until the present year, upon the single 

 professorship established in 1885. 



Though still burdened by the necessary cost of holding 



unim 



• Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1 : 36. T I. c. 1 : 37. * I. c. 1 : 56-59. 

 8 I. c. 1:36-37. *© I. c. 1:37. 



