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stone over its entrance, was built in 1859, and this same year 

 the installation of the Bernhardi Herbarium, previously pur- 

 chased in Europe, marked Mr. Shaw's intention to make the 

 Garden a center for scientific investigation and research. 

 How successfully the founder of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den incorporated this idea in the document intended for the 

 guidance of those who should administer this bequest, is evi- 

 denced by the remark of Judge Medill, one of the first members 

 of the Board of Trustees, who, after the reading of the will, 

 exclaimed : ' ' That is a scientific institution and much should 



come of its services to botany ! ' ' 



Mr. Shaw died August 25, 1889, and on September 10 the 

 formal organization of the Board of Trustees, created by his 

 will, took place. This is the anniversary we celebrate, for, as 

 I have indicated, it is the only definite anniversary we have. 

 Certainly asa" botanical institution, public in character, ' ' the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden began its existence upon the organ- 

 ization of the trust declared by Mr. Shaw's will. 



Two other notable bequests of Mr. Shaw require brief men- 

 tion at this time, one indicating his desire for further scientific 

 investigation in botany, the other the love for the beautiful 

 in nature and his wish that all might have unlimited oppor- 

 tunity for acquiring and indulging this same passion. I refer, 

 of course, to the endowment of the Henry Shaw School of 

 Botany of Washington University, and the gift of Tower 

 Grove Park to the city of St. Louis. The first is, owing to the 

 broad-minded liberality of the Board of Trustees of the Gar- 

 den and the untiring and unselfish efforts of its staff, taking a 

 place among similar schools of the kind of which Mr. Shaw 

 would not himself be ashamed. The latter, under the fatherly 

 care of Mr. Gurney, its first and only Superintendent, whom 

 we are proud to call the Head Gardener Emeritus of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, is nobly fulfilling the purpose for 

 which it was created. 



It is proper, then, that this company of scholars should as- 

 semble here to do honor to the memory of Henry Shaw, to 

 rejoice with us for the successful completion of twenty-five 

 years of usefulness of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



