Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Reports of committees were presented as follows: Committee to visit the University Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the department of Zoology, the Committee on the administration of the University Chapel, committee to visit the Arnold Arboretum, committee on engineering...
Professor C. S. Sargent '62, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, will return next Saturday from an extended trip through Europe and northern Asia. The itinerary of the trip, as planned by Professor Sargent last May, included Holland, France and Germany, St. Petersburg and Moscow, and thence over the Trans-Siberian railway to Pekin, making stops at frequent intervals along the route. Java and Hong Kong were visited and the return was via San Francisco...
...purpose of the trip was to make a botanical exploration of the countries visited, especially Siberia and northern China, and to arrange for the shipment of native trees and shrubs to the Arboretum. Professor Sargent was accompanied by his son, A. R. Sargent '00, and Mr. John Muir h.'96, the distinguished naturalist...
...fall. The greater part of the work to be included in this course has been offered for some years in the form of separate courses in the Scientific School. Part of these courses have been given in the various University buildings and others at the Bussey Institution and Arnold Arboretum. The additional courses to be added will be largely technical and will be given by Mr. R. T. Fisher '98, recently appointed an instructor in forestry, and another instructor not yet announced...
...object of the trip is to make a botanical exploration of the countries visited, especially Siberia and northern China, to collect seeds and herbarium specimens, and to arrange for the shipment to the Arboretum of native trees and shrubs...