Word: asa
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Establishing the Asa Gray professorship of systematic botany...
...most valuable gift has been received by the Herbarium this year in the collection of autographs of botanists, given by Mrs. Asa Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist...
...latest acquisition is a large frame containing photographs of the first faculty of the school, as they appeared at the time of their first meeting in 1847. The following members are among the most distinguished: Hon. Edward Everett, William Cranch Bond, Joseph Lovering, Cornelius C. Felton, Jeffries Wyman, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, Eben N. Horsford, Charles Beck, and Benjamin Pierce...
There are also separate pictures of Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz, presented by Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Agassiz; and pictures of the first four deans, Professor Horsford, Professor Walcott, Gen. Eustis, and Professor Chaplain. These rooms are a great improvement on the rooms before occupied in the Scientific School Building...
...Harvard Club of Maine held its annual meeting and dinner at the Sherwood House in Portland. About one hundred alumni were present. The following officers for the ensuing year were elected: President, George Walker '44; vice-presidents, Asa Dalton '48 and George E. Bird '69; secretary, W. M. Bradley '76; treasdrer, L. L. Hight...