William R. Smith, first Superintendent of the Botanic Garden. 



Scottish Rite Temple, Washington, D.C. 



inent people throughout the world, such as Andrew 

 Carnegie. 9 



Smith was also considered to be the "Father of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists/' 

 and was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of 



9 After Smith's death in July 1912, Carnegie assumed responsibility for 

 the Burns collection and arranged for it to be cataloged by William Thomp- 

 son of the Public Library of Edinburgh, Scotland. Today, the Smith col- 

 lection is housed in the Burnsiana Room in the Masonic Temple of the 

 Supreme Council Thirty-Third Degree in Washington. Ibid. 



