Word: asa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...COMMITTEE consisting of Prof. Asa Gray, Prof. George L. Goodale, and Mr. Alexander Agassiz have issued a circular asking for $80,000 to place the Botanic Garden upon a "sufficient and independent foundation." $25,000 has already been subscribed: of this sum, Frederick S. Ames gave $5,000; John C. Phillips, $2,500; H. H. Hunewell $1,000; Miss Marion Hovey, $100; Alexander Agassiz, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $500; Quincy Shaw, $5,000; E. W. Hooper, $200; A. P. Chamberlain, $100; John Amory Lowell, $1,000; H. P. Kidder, $1,000; a conditional subscription...