124 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
The celebration exercises opened on October 15 with an 
automobile tour of the city, starting from Hotel Jefferson 
at 10:30 A. M. A short stop was made at Washington 
University to allow the delegates and visiting scientists time 
for a brief inspection of the grounds and buildings of the 
University. The only other stop was made at the newly 
completed Barnes Hospital and Washington University 
Medical School. Through the kindness of Dean Opie and 
other members of the Medical School Faculty, the visitors 
were shown the splendid equipment and facilities of the 
hospital and the medical school. On the trip opportunity 
was also given the visitors to see Tower Grove Park, another 
of Mr. Shaw’s splendid gifts to the people of St. Louis. 
After the motor trip, luncheon was served at the Garden 
in the house erected by the founder of the Garden in 1849, 
and occupied by him as a country residence until his death, 
in 1889. Considerable interest was displayed by the visit- 
ing scientists in the historical collection, consisting of various 
portraits and articles which had belonged to Mr. Shaw, as 
well as autograph letters and books of interest to botanists, 
which was on exhibition in the old residence. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, opened the 
scientific meeting of the afternoon, held in the Graduate 
Lecture Room, with an address of welcome, after which the 
following papers were presented: 
“THE VEGETATION OF Mona IsLAND” 
Director in Chief N. L. Britton 
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York 
“Tue Fiora or Norway AND Its IMMIGRATION” 
Professor N. Wille 
University of Christiania, Christiania, Norway 
“THE PHYLOGENETIC TAXONOMY OF THE FLOWERING 
PLants” 
Professor Charles E. Bessey 
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 
1. “THe Boranitcat GARDEN oF OAxAca” 
2. “THe Orcuip anv Its Curtrvation” 
3. “THE Neeiectep CuttivaTion or AN IMPORTANT 
HorricutturRaL PLanv” 
Director Cassiano Conzatti 
Botanical Gardens of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico 
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