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...Asa White Kenney Billings...
...years' term - A. H. Dakin Amherst, T. J. Coolidge Harvard '84, Asa French Yale, A. T. Cabot Harvard '72, G. F. Tucker Brown...
...Njal of the Saga is a man in intellectual stature above his age and fellows. His was too great a nature, too clear and vigorous an intellect for the Asa teachings entirely to satisfy. The ruins of Njal's hall remain, and for the Icelander only the Thiny-fields, the site of the great moots of the commonwealth, surpass Hlitharendi (end of slope) Gunnar's home, and Bergthorshool (Bergthor's hill) Njal's home in richness of associations...
...Botanical department has been very generously remembered; it has received in all something over $32,000 in addition to the Ware collection of glass flower models. Among these gifts for the Botanical department, it is interesting to note one from Mrs. Asa Gray...
...most famous men that has ever had any close connection with Harvard was the great botanist, Asa Gray. Although Dr. Gray was not a graduate of Harvard, his connection with the college has been so intimate, and his devotion to her so strong that he might fairly be called a Harvard man. He came here in 1842 when he was made Professor of Natural History. When he began his task he found the botanical collection hardly more than a small botanical garden. The work that he must have spent in building up his herbarium is shown by the fact that...