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Damage to Harvard properties extended beyond Cambridge as reckonings of hurricane losses were made yesterday. Hardest hit was the Arnold, Arboretum in Jamiaca Plain where several hundred valueable trees were destroyed. The top of the Blue Hill, location of the Meteorological Station, suffered much property damage. To word came through from isolated Petersham or Squam Lake, New Hampshire, homes of the Harvard Forest and Engineering Camps, respectively, but it was feared much damage had occured...
With hundreds of trees uprooted or damaged beyond hope of repair, Harvard's far-famed botanical collections at the Arnold Arboretum suffered "tremendous damage," according to its Supervisor, Elmer D. Merrill, professor of Botany...
...plantings for which the Arboretum is best known popularly, such as the lilacs, cherries, crabapples and shrubs, are not severely damaged, and pruning will repair what has been done; but this does not minimize the total effect of the destruction...
...other hand the Biology department at Harvard is one of the best. It is better off financially than most, there are many outside institutions, such as the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Gray Herbarium, the Arnold Arboretum, the Botanical Museum, and the Harvard Forest, to mention only a few, connected with the department of Biology. The Biological Laboratory has excellent facilities, and there is an adequate library devoted to the department. Lastly the Faculty is large and brilliant...
With the lilacs in full bloom in the Arnold Arboretum, next Sunday has been formally announced as 'Lilac Sunday,' one week earlier than last spring...