1915] 



ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION — BANQUET 13 



Bulletin,' von denen die erste fur die Gesamtheit der bo- 

 tanischen Welt bestimmt ist, wahrend die letztere sich an alle 

 die in Ihrer eigenen Heimat wendet, die fur die Botanik als 

 scientia amabilis Sinn und Verstandnis haben. 



So gehort denn keine grosze Prophetengabe dazu, dem 

 Shaw's Garden eine weitere gedeihliche Entwickelung vorher- 



zusagen. 



Dasz aber auch die deutschen Botaniker immer da, wo sie 

 konnen, und wo ihre Mitwirkung erwiinscht ist, gerne mit 

 Ihnen Hand in Hand arbeiten werden, dafur bringt Ihnen die 

 Art der deutschen Wissenschaft, die stets die Forderung 

 jeglicher Forschung zum allgemeinen Besten im Auge gehabt 

 hat und auch in der Zukunft als hochstes Ziel im Auge 

 behalten wird, den Beweis. 



Meine Wiinsche aber erlauben Sie mir zusammenzufassen 



in den Ruf : 



Hortus botanicus Shawensis vivat, crescat, floreat! 



(A translation of Dr. Appel's address follows.) 



For this day which you are celebrating, you had invited also 

 a number of European colleagues and expected that of these 

 a large proportion would participate in the exercises. The 

 causes which have prevented most of your European guests 

 from being present are known to all of you and doubtless are 



regretted by you all. 



The expectation of a larger number of foreign representa- 

 tives is justified, for during the years of its existence, the 

 Botanical Garden of St. Louis has deservedly taken its place 

 in the ranks of the larger institutions of its kind, and, despite 

 the great distance, many a European botanist has already 

 sought out this scientific center and carried the message of 

 its rapid development to distant lands. 



But the ties that exist between our German botanists and 

 their colleagues working at Shaw's Garden have been estab- 

 lished not alone by such visits, but also by the abundant ex- 

 change of material and ideas, in which relationships have 

 developed which to-day were to have found expression through 



