SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THK DIKKCTOU. 
10 
In the spring, Mr. Smith, who had acted as Botanical 
Assistant at the Garden, was ajipointcd to ;i Ix ttcr paid 
position in the Division of A;j:n>-tolo^a- of the rnit^ d States 
Department of ALn-icuIture, and in July his pincc was taken 
by Mr. C. H. Thomiwon, who had i.revi<)u>ly actt-d as 
General Instructor in tli.^ School of Botanv. Throu-h the 
year Mr. H. C. Iri^h ba. >. rvrd a- Ilovtimltural A-i^tant, 
Mi>s Grace E. Jolm^.n as artist, :^Ii-^s Eva M. Reed as 
indexer. and Mr. i\ E. Hut<'l!ini:^ a>^ anianucnM,-. 
Durin- the year a small amount of time lia^ Jn^on found 
l)ymy>elf and my principal a«^^i-Tants for rcM\arch work, 
thcresidtsof whi'ch, so far as completed, have been con- 
tributed to societies or journals or will shortly lie puldishcd. 
The table which the Garden has maintained for ^ome years 
at the Wood's HoU Biological Laboratory, was tliscontinued 
at the end of 1894, at the wish of the Board. 
As in previous years, a number of botanists and horticul- 
turists from a di.-^tance have visited the Garden and made 
use of its collections, and i)arts of the herbarium material 
have been sent away for the use of specialists. 
It has always been my wi-h, and the intention of the 
Board, that the facilities which arc rapidly accumulating at 
the Garden should be as fully used as possible by resident 
and vi>«itiug investigators a-^ well as the employees of the 
Garden, and in May last the following circular was dis- 
tributed gentTally to American botanists and reprinted by 
several of the M-icntitie Journals: — 
The attention of botanists is called to the facilities afforded for re- 
search at the Missouri Botanical Garden. In establishini; and endov. int: 
the Garden, Its founder, Henry Shaw, desired not only to afford the 
tlieir best use, and to provide for beginners the means of ubtaini:i- -ood 
trainini; in botany aud horticulture, but also to provide facilities for 
additions are being made constantly to the number of species cultivated 
in the grounds and plant houses, and to the library and herbarium, and, 
work in vegetal)le physiolo^ry, etc., the policy being to secure a good 
general equipment in all lines of pure and applied botany, and to make 
