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REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 9 
The following amounts have been credited to the Stock 
Account for the year: 
ES A rere er per ser eS eee OB 
(SSG ling 3 oe Rea mines ae eee OPE gg reads peat eRe R ee rege a So a 8,943 05 
idprary building furnishings. .o <2 3... Se oe 2,000 00 
The annual bequests provided for in Mr. Shaw’s will, with 
the exception of the Trustees’ Banquet, have been met by 
the expenditure of $981.82, but the full amounts authorized, 
$2,100.00, have been charged against the year’s income, to 
be used at some future time. 
The Board has been called upon within the past year to 
mourn the loss of two Presidents, both members of the origi- 
nal Board appointed by Mr. Shaw: 
Mr. Rufus J. Lackland, President from October 14th, 
1889, to January 12th, 1910, who died February 28th, 1910, 
in his ninety-first year; and Mr, David ¥. Kaime, Vice- 
President from 1902 to February 9th, 1910, and President 
from that date to the time of his death, October 24th, 1910. 
These gentlemen for years devoted much time and atten- 
tion to the administration of the trust devised to them and 
their associates, and the Board passed the following reso- 
lutions of respect to their memory: 
The Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden desire collectively 
and individually to place on permanent record a minute of their 
grateful appreciation of the life and services of Rufus J . Lackland, 
who died February 28th, 1910, in the ninety-first year of his age. 
It is not theirs to dwell upon the great worth and exceeding useful- 
ness to St. Louis of his long life as a citizen and a business man. 
They, with every one else, recognize that in these relations he stood 
for the right, four square to every wind that blows. Nor did he only 
stand against the storms, but he moved to meet and beat them back, 
and in such work he did never 
‘*bate one jot of heart or hope, 
but still bore up and steered right onward.”’ | 
But it is for them to bear concordant witness to his dutiful devo- 
tion to the interests of the Missouri Botanical Garden, over which 
he and they were placed in custodianship. 
