
144 BOTANICAL GAZETTE | FEBRUARY, I9gOI 
as to command the highest esteem and respect. He never shirked a duty, 
and however difficult the undertaking the work performed by him was done 
most creditably. His loss will be felt most keenly by his associates in the 
division, and his memory will remain with them as one whose exemplary 
life and steadfastness of putpose they should strive to emulate. 
Resolved, Further, that we tender to his bereaved family our heartfelt 
sympathy in their great loss and invoke for them the blessing of the Heav- 
enly Father, who alone can heal the broken heart and give Jasting comfort. 
Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent to the family of the 
deceased and to the various daily and scientific journals.— Committee on 
Resolutions for the Department of Agriculture. 
FROM ADVANCE sheets of the twelfth annual report of the director of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden we make the following extracts: 
The garden has been maintained through the past year on about the same 
lines as for some years past. Though the revenue has not yet been increased 
through sales of real estate, the power to make such sales now makes it 
possible to spend on the garden the entire current revenue, which adds 
annually ten or fifteen thousand dollars to the available funds. The exten- 
sions which have been contemplated for some years past have now been 
begun. The improvements made this year consist in the grading of some 
twenty acres of land, and in planting the border about this tract. Two rather 
large ponds, connected by a meandering brook, were made, and the ground 
was given an easy fall from the streets to these bodies of water. All of the 
material used in this border plantation is. representative of North American 
plants, and it is proposed to plant on this tract a collection of 181 arborescent, 
269 fruticose, and some 1400 herbaceous species, representative of the 
North American flora, and arranged essentially in the familiar sequence of 
families of the ‘‘Genera Plantarum” of Bentham and Hooker. The garden 
now contains 9194 species and varieties of plants, of which 5547 are annuals 
or hardy perennials, and 3647 are cultivated under glass. A further exten- 
sion of the plant houses has been made by the erection of a tower at the 
northwestern corner of the system, in which small but representative collec- 
tions of succulents and of acacias and acacia-like plants have been planted 
out in a natural manner. The material incorporated in the herbarium during 
the year comprises 8415 sheets of specimens. The additions to the library 
456 pamphlets presented or sent in exchange for garden publications. Of 
serial publications the garden now receives 1117, all but 66 by exchange- 
The garden has materially assisted the botanical work in the public schools 
by supplying material. Several pieces of research work are about ready for 
publication. 


