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...order of the Honorable Secretary of War . . . Major Long had been instructed to explore the country from the Missouri westward to the Rocky Mountains to the source of the River Platte and thence by way of the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. Dr. James became botanist, geologist and surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th...
Formerly director of the New York Botanical Gardens, Professor Merrill is an internationally-noted expert in Philippine and Far Eastern plant life. He spent 20 years in the Philippines as a teacher and government botanist, and came to Harvard...
...promising new weapon against tuberculosis-an antibiotic called chloromycetin-is reported in Science this week. Discovered in a sample of Venezuelan soil by Yale's Botanist Paul R. Burkholder, and isolated by Parke, Davis & Co. chemists, the drug has performed brilliantly (in the test tube) against the bacteria of tuberculosis, undulant fever and a variety of other tough germs...
...Whole Men." When Botanist Sinnott took over famed Sheffield School two years ago, it became a graduate school only. But he is partly responsible for Yale's recent decision to require undergraduate liberal arts students to take broad courses in the goals and methods of science; and to require science majors to study the humanities...
Only a few years after slavery had been prohibited in the Nebraska Territory and with the pony express yet to be replaced by the overland telegraph, Roscoe Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1870. His father was a judge; his mother, an amateur botanist...