MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 133 
The first page bears the inscription “Commencing June, 
1859,” also in Mr. Shaw’s handwriting. Several hundred 
visitors to the Garden registered that year and many more 
the following year. In 1880, Mr. Shaw wrote: 
“The Gardens have been visited by eminent men of science, 
among whom Sir Joseph Hooker, Director of Kew Gardens, Prof. 
Asa Gray, the late Prof. Agassiz, and the celebrated plant collector 
Roesl, now in South America, and others, who have warmly en- 
couraged the proprietor in his exertions in collecting and bringing 
forward the plants, shrubs, and trees to their present state of 
growth. He has had much aid by the contributions and councils 
of Dr. Geo. Engelmann and the approbation of the citizens of St. 
Louis and the public in general, who visit the Gardens in increas- 
ing numbers. It is computed that a million or more people have 
seen the Garden since its first opening in 1860.” 
Dr. Engelmann died in 1885, and Mr. Shaw, wishing to 
commemorate his memory, called Dr. Asa Gray in consulta- 
tion, with the result of the founding of the Henry Shaw 
School of Botany and establishing therein the Engelmann 
rofessorship of botany. The very valuable herbarium of 
r. Engelmann and his library were given to the Garden 
by his son, Dr. George J. Engelmann, and formally ac- 
cepted by the trustees on October 14, 1889. 
Finally, it may be of interest to add a list of the rules 
which were considered necessary by Mr. Shaw when the 
Garden was opened: 
“1, Smoking, or eating and drinking or the carrying of pro- 
visions of any kind into the Gardens are strictly forbidden. No 
dogs can be admitted. 
“2. No packages or parcels, bags or baskets are allowed to be 
carried into the grounds. All such must be deposited at the Gate 
of Entrance, while the owners make the tour of the Gardens. 
“3. No person attired otherwise than respectably can enter, nor 
children too young to take care of themselves, unless a parent or 
suitable person be with them. The police (when there) have orders 
to remove such, or also persons guilty of any kind of impropriety. 
When large schools are admitted, they must be accompanied by a 
requisite number of Tutors and in accordance with the rules of the 
Gardens. 
“4, It is by no means forbidden to walk upon the grass walks; 
still it is requested that preference be given to the gravel paths, 
and especially that the lawn edges parallel to the walks be 
not made a foot way, as nothing renders them more unsightly. 
It is scarcely needful to say that all play, leaping over beds, run- 
ning on the grass and slopes are prohibited. The Gardens are in- 
tended for agreeable recreation and instruction, not for idle sports. 
“5. It is requested that visitors will refrain from touching the 
plants and flowers; a contrary practice can only lead to suspicion, 
rhaps unfounded, that their object is to abstract a plant or 
ower, which when detected must be followed by expulsion. 
“g. In entering the plant houses, it is particularly requested 
that visitors will keep to the right; if they do otherwise, they 
