Word: benjamin
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...staff is giving considerable attention to completing the Synoptical Flora of North America, begun by Dr. Gray, and now being edited by Professor Benjamin L. Robinson. The usual amount of research work is in progress. Among those engaged in it are Professor Piper, of the Washington Agricultural College, and Professor Henderson of the Iowa Agricultural College, who are here on leave of absence, to study the type specimens of western plants in the Herbarium collection...
...Benjamin Rand, of the Philosophical Department, has in press an edition of the "Philosophical Regimen" and the hitherto unpublished Letters of the third Earl of Shaftesbury...
...interesting and valuable addition has lately been made to the Harvard University collection in the Gore Hall Library. It consists of a volume of records of the class of '29 among the many famous members of which were Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Freeman Clarke, Benjamin R. Curtis, and Dr. S. F. Smith, the author of "America." According to agreement, the book remained in the hands of the late Rev. Samuel May, the first and only secretary of the class, until his death, and was then handed over to the Library. It is remarkable for the completeness of the class records...
...meeting of the Board of Overseers held yesterday morning, it was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their votes appointing James Atkins Noyes a member of the University Council, and also in electing Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Ph.D., Gray professor of systematic botany. A committee of three was appointed to act jointly with a committee of the Corporation to consider the subject of the franchise in voting for Overseers...