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Donald Wyman, B.S. Penn. State '26, M.S. Cornell '29, Ph.D. '35, now on the Cornell faculty, was appointed Horticulturist at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard for three years, from January, 1936. He will supervise the living collections at the Arboretum. He is recognized as an expert on ornamental plants, soil fertilization, and plant propagation...
...Fogg Museum received and spent about $128,000. Gifts accounted for $90,000 of the receipts. Gifts to the Arnold Arboretum totalled $120,000 out of the $125,000 income. And of the $25,000 received in the year by the Blue Hills Meteorological Observatory. $20,000 was in the form of gifts...
Elmer Drew Merrill, professor of Botany and administrator of Botanical Collections, as acting supervisor of the Arnold Arboretum and of the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum at Soledad, Cuba...
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...