TAS, 
Legislature, of 1897, providing for the establishment of the Gar- 
den. In this Act the purpose of the Garden is indicated to be, in 
part, ‘the collection and culture of plants, flowers, shrubs and 
trees * * * the advancement of botanical science and 
kindred subjects, [and] for affording instruction in the same.” 
There is no doubt but that such instruction, which is exactly in 
line with the modern tendency to make education directly use- 
ful, would prove immensely popular in this community. 
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NEW APPOINTMENTS TO THE GARDEN STAFF 
At a meeting of the Botanic Garden Committee of the Board 
of Trustees, held on July 2, 1913, the appointment of the fol- 
lowing new members of the Garden staff was approved: Dr. 
Orland Emile White, Assistant Curator of Plant Breeding; 
Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, Instructor; Miss Helen Virginia Stelle, 
Librarian; Mr. Guy Bisby, Laboratory Assistant. 
Dr. White’s academic and professional record is as follows: 
Bease South Dakotas State “Collece Gg) uo. Dorr, Nis. 
in Botany, Graduate School of Applied Science, Harvard, 1912; 
S.D., 1913. Hilton Scholar, Graduate School of Applied 
Science, Harvard, 1911-12; Emerson Scholar, 1912-13. General 
nursery work with the Yankton Nursery, Yankton, 5.D., 1903. 
Student assistant in plant breeding, Horticultural Department, 
South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Brookings, 
S.D., 1904; student assistant in botany, South Dakota State Col- 
lege and Agricultural Experiment Station, 1905 (summer), and 
1907-1909; assistant in sugar-beet seed investigations, U. 
Department of Agriculture, 1907 (summer); research assist- 
ant in botany, S. D. State College and Experiment Station, with 
residence during the summer of 1909 at the botanical labora- 
tories of the University of Wisconsin, 1909-1910; graduate stu- 
dent in the Laboratory of Genetics, Bussey Institution, 1910 (sum- 
mer) ; instructor in botany in the South Dakota State College and 
