Word: botanist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America's "oldest garden cemetery" was consecrated in 1831. Dr. Jacob Bigelow, Boston botanist who coined the word "technology," induced the Massachusetts Horticultural Society to be the cemetery's sponsor, though just what that organization's interest was, aside from its inherent respect for fertilizer, seems obscure...
...Yale's Botanist Edmund Ware Sinnott, 68, who as director of the Division of Sciences and dean of the Graduate School has as much as any man led the way in eliminating narrow specialties at Yale and in making sure that all Yalemen get in common the broad "background of all human knowledge." A gentle-mannered man who signs his amateur paintings "Edmund Ware" and is an authority on old Connecticut tombstones, Scientist Sinnott has spent a lifetime trying to heal the split between science and faith. "The two roads to truth . . . the way of science, confident in reason...
...Janeiro, Physiologist João de Souza Campos, Biochemist Roched Seba and Botanist Geraldo Kulman reported the discovery of a native substitute for India's so-called "miracle plant," rauwolfia serpentina, which has proved highly effective (in drug form) in treating high blood pressure and nervous disorders (TIME, Nov. 8). Drugs made from the new plant, rauwolfia sellowi, act on the nervous system like their Indian counterparts, but with a lower toxic effect...
...weekly Roman Catholic review America picked up some startling figures on the historical knowledge of U.S. scientists. In a test of 15 Ph.D. candidates, Botanist Harry Fuller of the University of Illinois found that only a third of the students could give a satisfactory identification of the Reformation and Voltaire; only half knew much about Plato; and only four could properly identify Bismarck. Out of the 15, ten had never even heard of the Medicis, and seven knew nothing whatever about the Magna Carta...
Betty: I myself think those double flowers are always hideous, but of course it was a wonderful show. I went with Emily, who is a botanist, and she told me many amazing things about flowers...