THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



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of a great botanical garden, large additions to the single small plant 

 house now devoted to experimental work in mycology and plant pathol- 

 ogy, and a suitable home for its herbarium and library, with ample 

 laboratory facilities, it is easy and safe to predict. That these shall 

 all and alwa}*s be freely at the disposal of any who wish to make 

 serious use of them in research work of any kind, is an established 

 policy, not likely to change. Finally, it may be said that, as its 

 founder's wish was to make its scope broad, so the purpose of those 

 to whom he has left its administration is to develop it, so far as the 

 means at their disposal admit, on lines which shall better fit it with 

 the passage of each year for the performance of useful work in any 

 part of the field, while strengthening it to the fullest during the 

 progress of each particular study that is taken up and, throughout, 

 never to let it become anything but a place to which the lover of the 

 beautiful may turn in the full assurance that he will never find it 

 less beautiful than when it was Henry Shaw's home, but rather a 

 place to which wealth of scientific resource has but added greater 

 possibilities for pleasure, when pleasure only is sought. 



