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"For the purpose of establishing and maintaining a botanical garden and 

 museum and arboretum therein, for the collection and culture of plants, 

 flowers, shrubs and trees, the advancement of botanical science and knowl- 

 edge, and the prosecution of original researches therein and in kindred 

 subjects, for affording instruction in the same, for the prosecution and exhi- 

 bition of ornamental and decorative horticulture and gardening, and for 

 the entertainment, recreation and instruction of the people." 



Out of the attempts to realize these objectives the various depart- 

 ments, and the types of staff members connected therewith, of the present 

 executive organization of the garden have gradually developed. The prin- 

 cipal staff members as of 1925 are as follows (Bulletin of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, June 3, 1925): 



Director in chief. Artist. 



Assistant director. Head gardener. 



Head curator of the museum. Head gardener's assistant. 



Honorary curator of the economic collections. Two foremen gardeners. 



Honorary curator of mosses. Gardeners. 



Three curators and two associate curators. Laborers. 



Director of the laboratories. Custodian of herbaceous grounds. 



Technical assistant to the director of the laboratories. Landscape engineer. 



Librarian. Administrative assistant. 



Bibliographer. Clerk and accountant. 



Honorary custodian of local herbarium. Superintendent of buildings and grounds. 



Paleobotanist. 



Mr. Henry Shaw, founder of the Missouri Botanical Garden, stated in 

 his will the purposes of the trust which he established, as follows: "Having 

 for the use of the public a botanical garden easily accessible, which should 

 be forever kept up and maintained for the cultivation and propagation of 

 plants, flowers, fruit and forest trees, and other productions of the vege- 

 table kingdom; and a museum and library connected therewith, and devoted 

 to the same and to the science of botany, horticulture and allied objects." 



Provisions were also made for the establishment of public lectures on 

 botany and allied sciences; for making additions to the collections of plants, 

 the museum and the library; for exchanges; for increase in the means and 

 appliances of instruction, and for the maintenance of the revenue, up to a 

 certain point, of the school of botany which had been established in con- 

 nection with Washington University. The instruction of garden pupils is 

 specifically indicated as a purpose of the institution, and among the sub- 

 jects that are mentioned (in the will) as forming a part of the purposes of 

 its founder are horticulture, arboriculture, medicine and the arts, so far as 

 botany enters into them, and scientific investigations in botany proper, 

 vegetable physiology, the diseases of plants, the forms of vegetable life 

 and of animal li'fe injurious to vegetation, and experimental investigations 



