MEMORIAL OF HENRY SHAW. 159 



William C. Strong, Chairman of the Committee to prepare a 

 memorial of Henrj^ Shaw, reported the following : 



The Committee appointed to express the sentiment of the 

 Societ}- in regard to the late Henrj- Shaw, report as follows : 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society, while confining its 

 main attention to its legitimate work within its own borders, has 

 always been deeply appreciative of its obligations to the dis- 

 tinguished men in the old world, and in other parts of our own 

 country, who have been eminent in the art of horticulture. 

 Among these benefactors of the race we recognize our late Corres- 

 ponding Member, Henry Shaw of St. Louis, as deserving our 

 grateful remembrance. Retiring from active business pursuits 

 with an ample competency at the age of fort^' j-ears, he set an 

 illustrious example of devotion of his large fortune and his time to 

 the welfare of his fellow-men. By his princely gift of Tower 

 Grove Park, — now famous throughout the country — to the city 

 of St. Louis, and by the bequest to the State of Missouri, of his 

 extensive Botanical Garden, which during his lifetime he planted 

 and kept open for the benefit and enjoyment of all classes, he has 

 conferred incalculable blessings which will continue to flow without 

 end. 



The scientific world is also largely indebted to him for the col- 

 lection and publication of the woi'ks of his life-long friend, the 

 late Dr. P^ngelmann. It is the good fortune of this Society to 

 have received from Mr. Shaw himself a copy of these works during 

 the last year, which gift will be not only a prized addition to our 

 Library but a most interesting and valuable memorial of the giver. 



On the 25th day of August last, after a well-rounded life of 

 ninety years, Mr. Shaw rested from his earthly labors, in the firm 

 hope of continued service beyond. We honor his memory ; we 

 mourn his loss ; we tender our sympath}- to his surviving friends. 



William C. Strong, ~\ 



Francis H. Appleton, > Committee. 



Robert Manning, ) 



The memorial was unanimously adopted. 



John G. Barker, Chairman of the Committee appointed at the 

 last meeting to express the sense of the Society in regard to the 

 decease of William C. Harding, reported as follows : — 



