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...Harvard collection is considered the most authoritative in the world in plants of the United States and South America, and is very strong in Arctic and Mexican flora. The Herbarium was founded in 1864 when Asa Gray, pioneer American botanist, gave his private collection of more than 200,000 specimens to Harvard...
...Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris found a split in the Army clique, edged it out of power and put in his present Premier, the 70-year-old botanist, Andrew Tosheff, under a semi-Fascist "authoritarian" Government. Colonel Gueorguieff's friends began to say that Bulgaria would be better off without Tsar Boris. Last week in Sofia the Tsar's police uncovered a vast plot to overthrow the Government and perhaps to assassinate the little Tsar...
Moving fast. Premier-Botanist Tosheff had 30 Army officers. 30 politicians jailed on charges of high treason. Martial law was declared, Sofia's streets were cleared at rifle point after a 10 p. m. curfew, and the Cabinet stayed on in session getting telephone reports from police headquarters on new arrests until the total had reached 255, including former Premier Colonel Gueorguieff and a delegation of returned Bulgarian exiles from Yugoslavia...
Following the pattern of President Conant's roving professor plan, the Corporation yesterday appointed Elmor Drew Merrill, professor of Botany at Columbia and world-famous botanist to the post of Professor of Botany at and Administrator of Botanical Collections...
...Glendon (Henry Hull) is a respectable botanist. On moonlight nights, unless he gets his mariphasa, he turns into a wolfish Mr. Hyde, does his best to strangle his handsome and devoted wife (Valerie Hobson). These habits do not seriously endanger his career until another werewolf (Warner Oland) who has run out of mariphasa flowers tries to steal Dr. Glendon's last blossom. The result is a fight between the two and the liveliest sequence in the picture when Dr. Glendon is shot by a pistol bullet while chasing his wife about their house in an effort to bite...