MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 13 
maintenance of the requisite botanical laboratories, and their 
equipment with instruments and appliances for illustration and 
investigation, for the maintenance and increase of a botanical 
library and herbarium; and for such like objects strictly ger- 
man to a School of Botany.” 
The will also declares: 
* * * “that scientific investigation in Botany proper, in 
vegetable physiology, the diseases of plants, the study of the 
forms of vegetable life, and of animal life injurious to vegeta- 
tion, experimental investigations in horticulture, arboriculture, 
etc., are to be promoted no less than instruction to pupils; but 
I leave details of instruction to those who may have to admin- 
ister the establishment, and to shape the particular course of 
things to the conditions of the times.” 
The Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden are 
* * * “empowered to allot, from time to time, any of the 
income not needed for the development and maintenance of the 
said Garden, to the augmentation to the means and appliances 
of instruction.” 
While in the past there has been a most generous attitude 
shown towards ing out these provisions of Mr. Shaw’s 
will, as evidenced by the organization and maintenance of 
those most necessary adjuncts of research and instruction— 
the library and herbarium—as well as providing opportun- 
ities for graduate students, the past year marks a distinct 
epoch in the further development of the scientific side of 
the Garden. 
At the close of 1912, the activities of this department were 
centered about physiology and morphology, which form the 
necessary groundwork for specialization in these as well as 
in other phases of botany. Aside from the Director of the 
Garden, these subjects were represented by Dr. B. M. Duggar, 
in charge of the Graduate Laboratory, Dr. Geo. R. Hill, 
Research Assistant, and Dr. J. R. Schramm, Assistant to 
the Director. As a result of the appointment of Drs. J. M. 
Greenman and E. A. Burt, there has been a notable strength- 
ening of the work along taxonomic and morphological lines, 
for, aside from their curatorial duties as well as in connection 
therewith, they are developing the research features of their 
special fields (esed plants and fungi), at the same time cor- 
dially supporting any requisite instructional work. 
Graduates and Fellows—Dr. R. Hill, Jr., resigned 
his position as Research Assistant in June, and was succeeded 
Ke . C. Merrill, who has been in graduate work at Cornell, 
icago, and Harvard Universities. The Sot he are the 
1913-1914 appointments to the Rufus J. Lackland Fellow- 
