88 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
entrance of this newly erected plant house. In the center is Lin- 
naeus, the great reformer of the natural sciences, called by his 
contemporaries the ‘Prince of Nature.’ On his right the bust of 
Thomas Nuttall, designated the ‘Father of Western American Bot- 
any’ by our learned friend, Dr. George Engelmann. To the left, on 
the east side, is that of Dr. Asa Gray, well known to you all as a 
bright ornament to American science. These men are and have 
been shining lights as naturalists in describing and classifying the 
numerous and various objects of the vegetable kingdom. These 
monuments are durable mementoes of our esteem and respect for 
illustrious men whose names are indelibly connected with the plants 
and trees that beautify the face of nature, and thus their names 
will be handed down to future ages and be known as long as science 
and civilization exist among men.” 
The marble statues of Juno and Victory were both 
made by Ross C. Adams of Carrara, Italy. The Juno, now 
in the Italian garden, formerly stood opposite the main gate 
in the center of a small formal garden, but the Victory has 
always stood within the structure it now occupies. Tradition 
has it that this was originally intended by Mr. Shaw as his 
mausoleum, but later he decided granite would be more 
permanent and built the second mausoleum. 
The statue of Juno is an exact copy of an antique, now 
in the National Museum, Naples (photograph No. 5099), 
and cost $775.00 delivered in St. Louis. The Victory is a 
copy of a statue by Consain, also in the Naples gallery 
(photograph No. 523) and cost $1,050.00 delivered. These 
statues arrived together during the month of September, 
1886, and were almost immediately put in place. 
Mr. Shaw evidently placed the order for his own monu- 
ment in 1882, since by March, 1883, Miller had received 
photographs and begun the preliminary sketches. The 
granite mausoleum was begun in 1884, and, as is well 
known, this structure, as well as the statue and pedestal, 
were completed several years before Mr. Shaw’s death. The 
bronze ornaments and the marble figure of Mr. Shaw were 
executed in Germany, but the pedestal was made in St. 
Louis. No record exists of the cost of the monument, but 
the following itemized account of the preliminary work 
called for by Mr. Shaw may be of interest: 
To the architect Rohmeis for making three drawings and the 
Jarger Getall foci ie ee ee $220.00 
For making the whole sarcophagus in wood and gypsum to model 
the ormaments: 605.4000. 7 ee 88.00 
For modeling six wreaths, two inscription plates, and five and 
: One-half metres of gatlawie. ce 530.00 
For the casting of the whole; jy. i..45.5... 2... 440.00 
