Word: arborctum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan, the most significant was a suggestion to combine the University's botanical libraries and herbaria, then housed in nine buildings. In their place the plan proposed "a single unit in as close proximity to the Biological Laboratories as possible," leaving only a working; library and herbarium at the Arborctum. Research in Jamaica Plain, it was felt, was then hindered by crowding and fire-hazard conditions. The details of unification, however, were not spelled out in Bailey's report. "What we are primarily concerned with is the health and vigor of Botany itself and what Harvard with its particular...
...following the adoption of the plan, a group of faculty and alumni, led by the late Professor Oakes Ames '98, formerly a director of the Arborcetum, began to question the wisdom of separating the Arborctum's books and specimens from its living shrubs. By removing half of the institution's facilities, they claimed, Harvard would be serving its own purposes while turning the world-renowned botanical center into a park. Further, the Ames group attacked the legality of the Corporation's actions. Harvard does not own the Arborctum, they stated, but has held it since 1872 as public trustee...
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