Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haeseler '23, head of the University Film Foundation, has announced that the organization is making a series of studies of the Arnold Arboretum, in Boston. 100 plates, manufactured by the Agfa-Ansco Company, in Germany, have been procured with considerable difficulty, and slides are now being taken of the various flowering shrubs in their natural colors. Oakes Ames '98, Professor of Botany, and the chairman of the Council of Botanical Specimens, is financing the enterprise, which botanists greet with conspicuous enthusiasm. Some 40 plates have already been made, and will be shown next Tuesday to Harvard and Radcliffe students...
Harvard University was yesterday named recipient of $10,000 by the will of Louis Curtis '70 of Boston. Of this sum $5000 is to go to the classical department to promote the study of Latin, $2500 to the endowment fund of the Law School, and $2500 of the Arnold Arboretum...
Members of the Division of Anthropology, the Division of Biology (Botany, Zoology, Physiology) the Bussey Institution, the Gray Herbarium, the Botanic Garden, the Arnold Arboretum, the University Museum, the Division of Geology (Geology and Geography, and Mineralogy and Petrography), the Medical School, the Dental School the School of Public Health, the University Press the University Library and the Officers of Administration are acting as hosts for this first gathering...
...Wilson was greatly respected and had a large reputation as naturalist, author, and collector. He was born in Gloustershire, England in 1876, made an editor of the Royal College of Science, London, given an honorary M.A. at Harvard in 1916, and was made assistant curator of the Arboretum...
...foreign countries. He was awarded several medals, including the Victoria medal of honor and the Geoffrey St. Hilaire gold medal, and was famous among horticulturists for his books on flowers and trees all over the world. Throughout his travels he was continually collecting all varieties of specimens for the Arboretum...