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those present, and lasting about an hour and a half. As a result 
of the conference, the Garden will be able to plan more intelli- 
gently with reference to the above mentioned correlation. 
iy Vee) 

REPORT OF A TRIP TO BOTANICAL INSTITUTIONS 
Dr. C. Sruarr Gacer, Director, 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Sir.—I herewith submit a report on my recent visit to the 
Missouri Botanical Garden at St. Louis, and to the Phipps Con- 
servatories and Phipps Hall of Botany at Pittsburgh. These visits 
were made in accordance with your earlier suggestion, during 
the journey east from South Dakota, to assume my new duties 
as Curator of Public Instruction in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
At St. Louis I spent the morning and part of the afternoon 
of August 31 at the Missouri Botanical Garden, or ‘“Shaw’s 
arden,” as it is perhaps better known locally. Through the 
courtesy of Dr. George ‘Tl’. Moore, the newly appointed director of 
the garden, and of Mr. Schramm, the assistant director, I was 
able to inspect fairly thoroughly, in the short time at my disposal, 
the plantations of the garden, the greenhouses and the labora- 
tories. 
The Missouri Botanical Garden, as is well known, was early 
(in 1885) closely associated with Washington University; and 
the Henry Shaw School of Botany, located at the garden, was 
founded at that time as a department of the university, the 
teaching being almost exclusively of an advanced character and 
carried on largely for graduate students. Some work of a more 
popular and elementary nature is, however, carried on, as is 
evidenced by their annual chrysanthemum shows, and by their 
free donation of living material from the garden and greenhouses, 
and by other aid to public schools. In contrast to our own 
garden, there is no official relation between the Missouri garden 
and the local municipal government, and assistance to public, as 
well as to private, schools, is given entirely on the initiative of the 
garden. 
The magnificent endowment of the Missouri Botanical 
