12 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
should be noted that, owing to the improvements on Shaw 
Avenue, as well as the construction of the new fence along 
Tower Grove and Magnolia Avenues, there have been 
considerable periods during the year when visitors could 
gain access to the Garden at other points than through the 
main gate—the only place at which visitors are counted. 
Particularly on Sundays, hundreds of people came into the 
Garden at unfenced places and it is quite certain that the 
total attendance indicated for the year 1913 is less than the 
actual number of visitors. 
ATTENDANCE FOR THE YEAR 1913 
Week-days Sundays 
| January . Oe eee 
February RpPee eo A 
March 4,532 10,765 
April 11,798 20,474 
May 14,212 12,968 
June 11,081 7,061 
July ‘ 10,321 7,036 
A ; 11,466 7,147 
September 6,387 5,382 
October. 8,856 5,434 
November 24,112 32,211 
December ORG reed 
109,181 108,478 
109,181 
Tl aie Se eee 
RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION 
The far-sighted and definite way in which Mr. Shaw pro- 
vided for the work of research and instruction in botany, 
both at the Garden and in co-operation with Washington 
University, is perhaps not any too well known. The follow- 
ing extracts from the will of Mr. Shaw demonstrate his posi- 
tion better than would any elaborate discussion. 
“Having established, maintained and open for the use of 
the public for many years the Missouri ical Garden and 
wishing to perfect my endowment of it, and to augment and 
perpetuate its usefulness by connecting with it a School of 
Botany for the promotion of education and investigation in that 
science, and in its application to Horticulture, Agriculture, 
Medicine and the Arts,” * * * : 
a certain income is provided, ue 
“to be used exclusively to pay the salaries, and to defray the 
necessary incidental of those engaged in botanical — 
instruction and researches at the Garden, and as need may 
require also within the precincts of the University; also for the 
