Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the numerous publications which have taken root in Harvard soil there is one which has perhaps been unequaled in its presentation as well as the unusual nature of its contents. This is a fearless publication. Admitting the difficulty of treating the subject, the last issue of Arnold Arboretum's "Bulletin of Popular Information" throws caution to the winds and breathlessly sails into an abstruse problem which has never in the history of writing been treated so sensitively...
...Biological Station in Cuba, located near Cienfuegos, is devoted to research in tropical plants with 100 acres given over to the production of economic plants and experimental grounds used for developing improved varieties of sugar cane. This station is maintained in connection with the Arnold Arboretum in Boston for Harvard graduate students and often in the field of biology...
...present the botanical collections of the University are spread throughout the whole area of Cambridge with the Forest in New Hampshire, the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, and the Gardens in Cuba. There are various other botanical groups in the Gray Herbarium, the Botanical Gardens, the Biology Department, and the Biological Museum...
...been proposed that all these collections be gathered under the same roof in a new building similar in scope to that of the Biological Laboratories. There are obvious objections, however, due to the physical operations involved. The Arnold Arboretum is entirely too complicated to move to Cambridge and the work of the Botanical Gardens in Cambridge which is used principally to supply specimens for classes can best be carried on near to the main part of the College...
...Yonkers the Institute has a big headquarters building, some 25 greenhouses nine acres of outdoor planting. It has a small farm in the Saw Mill River Valley, a large nursery and arboretum at Spring Valley. The staff comprises 30 to 35 scientists, six stenographers, 20 engineers and technicians, three librarians who care for 20,000 reference books and 10,000 pamphlets, three photographers who keep a pictorial record of the work and make motion pictures of sunflowers "waking up" at midnight, of plants wobbling drunkenly as they recover from gas anesthesia...