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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



In 1880 the Scliool of Fine Arts was established and the Museum 

 of Fine Arts was erected and presented to the university by the Hon. 

 Wayman Crow. 



In 1885 the Shaw School of Botany was founded and endowed by 

 Mr. Henry Shaw, as a department of the university, in close connection 

 with the Missouri Botanical Garden,* with rare opportunities for ad- 

 vanced botanical research. 



In 1892 the Missouri Dental College was made a department of the 

 university, and in 1895 the St. Louis Medical College, organized in 

 1841, was made the medical department of the university. Two years 



CuppLES Hall No. 1. 

 Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture. 



later the medical course was lengthened to four years, and in 1898 the 

 Missouri Medical College, founded in 1840, was united with this de- 

 partment, foraiing one of the strongest departments of the university. 

 As it has at its disposal the combined resources of two institutions of 

 such high standing, it is now one of the best schools of medicine in the 

 country. 



On the death of Chancellor Eliot, in 1887, there was an inter- 

 regnum of four years, during which Professor Marshall S. Snow, dean 

 of the college, acted as chancellor. He was succeeded in 1891 by Win- 

 field S. Chaplin, the present chancellor, a graduate of West Point, in 

 the class of 1870, who had been successively a professor in Maine State 

 College, in the Imperial University of Tokio, Japan, in Union College 



* See The Popular Sciejjce Monthly, 1903, for account of Missouri Botan- 

 ical Garden. 



