Word: arboretum
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...Ivan Murray Johnston, who took his Ph.D. in 1925, is a research associate at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. The problem of the dispersal of plants in the Western Hemisphere, and the manner in which plants in the western United States were transferred to Central America will occupy Dr. Johnston's time during the year that the Fellowship covers...
...anniversary of the two hundredth birthday of George Washington, in 1932, could be much more fittingly marked by the establishments of community forests rather than by high price trees of doubtful history," writes J. G. Jack in a recent number of the Arnold Arboretum bulletin, in discussing alleged descendants of "the so-called Washington...
...first tea on Friday, November 13, at Phillips Brooks House are officers of the administration: members of the Departments of Anthropology, Biology, Zoology, Physiology, and Geology; University Library and University Press officials; and those affiliated with the Bussey Institute, the Botanic Garden, the Gray Herbarium, the Arnold Arboretum, and the University Museum...
...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...