Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; Wayne MacVeagh, former Ambassador to Italy; Jakob Heinrick van't Hoff, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Berlin; James Ford Rhodes, historian; Charles Sprague Sargent 62, Arnold Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard University, and Director of the Arnold Arboretum; James Tyndale Mitchell '55, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania...
Circulars have been published by the management of the Arnold Arboretum, asking for subscriptions to the now insufficient endowment fund. They state the aim of the Arboretum and tell of the work already accomplished in spreading the knowledge of the silva of our country. The Arboretum plant is valued at about $3,000,000, and yet its yearly income is barely $7,000. This is quite insufficient to pay for the salaries, the cost of all investigations and an enormous correspondence, the care of the Arboretum grounds, and keeping up and extending the living collections. It is estimated that...
...Botanical Garden), 3,000.00 Miss Marian C. Jackson (towards the salary of are instructor in the History and Art of Teaching), 1,625.00 Messers. Storey and Putnam, trustees, (payment towards certain salaries in the Medical School), 1,000.00 Society for Promoting Agriculture,(for expenses at Arnold Arboretum), 2,500.00 Society for Promoting Theological Education, (for purchase of books for the Divinity School), 3,535.00 Mrs. N. E. Baylies (for Peabody Museum), 25.00 Subscriptions to Germanic Museum), 1,728.00 Charles L. Noyes, 5.00 Dr. W. S. Bigelow (towards the salary of Dr, Alfred Schaper), 100.00 G. C. Travis, (repayment of money...
About eight or none hundred shrubs, bought from the Arnold Arboretum, will be set out on Soldiers. Field next spring...
Officers in charge of the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain have had published recently a map of the grounds of the Arboretum and of the Bussey Institute adjoining. The map, which is quite large, shows the location and gives the name of every bit of shrubbery on the grounds...