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research, the results of which can but reflect increasing 
credit on the Garden, which has been privileged to aid in 
their development. 
During the past year such of the time of capable em- 
ployees as could be spared for that purpose has been given 
to research work, and a number of papers embodying the 
results of such work have been published. 
As in former years, the facilities of the Garden have been 
extended freely to visiting botanists and to correspondents; 
14,139 herbarium specimens have been loaned to 28 persons, 
and 80 books and pamphlets to 21 persons not living in 
St. Louis, in addition to 134 books loaned to 44 residents of the 
city. 
THE GARDEN STAFF. 
No important changes have been made in the library, 
herbarium or garden staff, except that in the spring Mr. 
Adolph Jaenicke, a man of large experience in various fields 
and places, was appointed Foreman to succeed Mr. Otto 
Bogula who had efficiently held that post for about a year 
until compelled to relinquish it for personal business reasons. 
SPECIAL TESTAMENTARY PROVISIONS. 
Three of the annual events provided for in Mr. Shaw’s 
will have taken place in 1911. 
The flower sermon was preached in Christ Church Cathe- 
dral, St. Louis, on the morning of May 14, 1911, by Rt. 
Rev. F. F. Johnson, Bishop of South Dakota. 
The sum set apart for floral premiums was awarded by 
the St. Louis Horticultural Society, at its November Ex- 
hibition ; no award was made of the Shaw medal.® 
The twenty-second Gardeners’ Banquet was given at the 
Southern Hotel, St. Louis, on the evening of June 15, 1911. 
Over three hundred persons were seated, two-thirds of them 
members of the American Association of Nurserymen which 
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