MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 33 
nitrogen was made possible and thus, too, further new eco- 
nomic possibilities were at the same time opened. 
Laboratories Originally Contemplated.—The establish- 
ment and equipment of laboratories and the assembling of a 
staff of investigators at the Missouri Botanical Garden was 
not only contemplated by the founder as a possible feature 
of the work, but these things were expressly specified as a 
art of the purpose of the establishment. By the terms of 
is will and by plans which had a definite inception prior 
to his decease, Mr. Shaw offered every encouragement to the 
development of laboratories and the promotion of research, 
both in the Garden and in the School of Botany. 
With the appointment of Professor William Trelease as 
Director of the Garden, in 1889, research was inaugurated, 
meaning by this not only an adequate expenditure for the 
maintenance of the Garden proper, but also for the augmen- 
tation of the facilities of the library and herbarium, likewise 
for the establishment of a laboratory, and the organization of 
a research staff. An evidence of the expected attitude of the 
Garden towards research is afforded by the address of Pro- 
fessor Farlow at the first annual banquet, in 1890, where he 
said, in part: 
“Now you have here in St. Louis a garden with an endow- 
ment far surpassing that of any other garden in America, 
and possibly equaling that of the best gardens in Europe, 
with a fund which may be and should be spent for the pur- 
poses of investigation. Here in St. Louis, better than any- 
where else, you are provided for doing abstract work. Trust 
to research. Do not be afraid to go ahead and leave to in- 
vestigators the work which in the end, and perhaps in a 
comparatively few years, must give your garden a prominent 
place amongst all the gardens of the world. Do not be con- 
tent to say ‘We of St. Louis have here a beautiful garden 
where we can go every day and examine the plants and ap- 
preciate the beauties of nature,’ but do not rest until you 
have established here a school of research, research in the 
most difficult problems of botany, being assured that in the 
end those problems will be of advantage not only to St. Louis, 
to Missouri, but to the whole world. Once having made in 
St. Louis a school of research, you will then take the lead in 
practical horticulture as well as in more purely theoretical 
science.” 
The First Twenty Years.—To what extent those charged 
with the execution of the will and the conduct of the scientific 
