Word: arboretums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the glorious forsythia, the jonquils and daffodils and, of course, all the perfect cherry blossoms. They go on and on about the dogwoods, the fields of hyacinths and azaleas, the quarter-million tulips planted near the Tidal Basin. Special pilgrimages are urged on visitors: not just the National Arboretum-precious camellias! amazing bonsai!-but the wonders of Dumbarton Oaks and the little garden at the foot of Capitol Hill. Washington, in sum, is very serious, even about its plants...
...greatest contribution has been to put ethnobiology on a solid scientific basis by being both an outstanding chemist and botanist," says Peter S. Ashton, Arnold Professor of Botany and director of the Arnold Arboretum, adding that Schultes has developed "an unusual level of capacity" to identify plants of potential economic interest. "He's demanding in the sense that he always wants the right answer, but he's also a very congenial person," says a Northeastern University professor of pharmacology, Robert Rattauf, who has worked with Schultes for the past 30 years...
March 15--Future Faculty Dean Watt visits Cambridge to get acquainted with the terrain. He takes particular care to visit the Harvard Forest and the Arnold Arboretum, and listens with great attention as Crimson Key tour guide tells him about last year's controversy over ivy on the Houses. He says little during the visit, but pronounces himself eager to "get in there and start shaking up all these dusty old profs...
...excrement. Samples of bee feces collected at Harvard bore striking similarities--in size, general appearance, and specific characteristics--to samples and descriptions of samples of spots said to be yellow rain, according to Meselson and four other scientists--including. Harvard botanist Peter S. Ashton, director of the Arnold Arboretum...
Peter Ashton, associate professor of Botany and director of the Arnold Arboretum, and Mark Leighton, assistant professor of Anthropology, attended the conference along with Constable and scientists from various European countries, Israel and Australia...