58 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 



funds, with a provision thai a percentage of the animal income 

 be devoted toward liquidating the indebtedness. 



"Many of you are familiar with the original gateway, and 

 our architects, Messrs. Jamieson and Spearl, followed the gen- 

 eral plan, and the Board wishes to congratulate them upon the 

 success of their efforts, since without unnecessarily destroying 

 the type of entrance as conceived by Mr. Shaw they have in- 

 creased the needed accommodations some three-fold. 



"We meet today to dedicate this structure, and 1 hope and 

 believe that with the enlarged facilities for the convenience of 

 visitors their numbers may increase, as I hey can secure a bet- 

 ter and more pleasing impression of the Garden than was here- 

 tofore possible. 



"The Garden has an enviable reputation, both internation- 

 ally and nationally, standing in the front rank everywhere as 

 an institution of scientific and horticultural attainments. 



"The Board of Trustees, as now constituted, is fast ap- 

 proaching and passing the meridian of life (one only of the 

 trustees named in Mr. Shaw's will remaining), and on the 

 trustees who follow us will devolve the duty of carrying out 

 and increasing its reputation and activities. 



"We have been fortunate in securing as speaker of the day 

 the Hon. Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, and 1 

 take pleasure in introducing him." 



At this point in the exercises, owing to the continued down- 

 pour of rain, the company adjourned to the Moral display 

 house, where the Honorable Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of 

 Agriculture, made the following address: 



"It is a privilege to be here today and an honor to be asked 

 to speak briefly on such an occasion. You are in a way dedi- 

 cating anew to the use of the public these wonderful gardens 

 which for more than half a century have been an inspiration 

 to those who visited them and which have contributed much to 

 our store of knowledge of God's great vegetable kingdom. 



"Instinctively our thoughts turn first to that generous 

 spirited citizen who made all of this possible. I wish I might 

 speak from that intimate personal fellowship which perhaps 

 some of those who are here today enjoyed. But the spirit of a 

 man is made manifest not alone while he is here with us 

 hut by the things he does and says which live after he has 

 passed on. 



"So thousands who could not know Henry Shaw in the 

 riesh nevertheless have a deep sense of gratitude to him and. 

 of kinship with him. Hundreds of thousands of those who 

 neither knew him nor have known of him nevertheless will be 



