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When Founder Thompson had pondered his idea and found it good, he invited botanists all over the U. S. to submit their own ideas of how such an institute should be run and what it should try to do. Dr Crocker, then at the University of Chicago, submitted the plans that looked best to Col. Thompson, was hired forthwith, spent three years studying research methods at home and abroad before opening the Institute. His staff likes him because he does not isolate projects but encourages entomologist, botanist, physical chemist and mathematician to get their heads together. He gives some...
...soon to be transcended. The Kex of the ancient Greeks was not a member of the gymnospermous order Coniferales; it is, rather, a member of the dicotyledonous family, Umbelliferae--a close relative of that charming weed, the Queen Anne's Lace. Ludlorous as this error seems to the botanist, it must be remembered that the Kex Club probably included no botanists in its membership, a fact less surprising than their presence would have been...
Next day, with a fresh rose in his lapel, Johns Hopkins Gynecologist-Naturalist- Botanist-Historian-Professor Howard Atwood Kelly, 75, piously denounced "a certain mechanical meddling with married life which is abhorrent to me. . . . Think of an elaborate conference on Birth Control in the Mayflower Hotel! Such a thing would have been inconceivable 20 years ago. And a great social gathering, too, at which details were talked over. Disgusting! ... I have nine children, and 14 grandchildren...
...century plant was about to bloom, but no bud opened. Crowds came to gape at the monster stalk, the sulky buds. Director Elmer D. Merrill apologized, "This plant is 50 years old and I guess it's got a right to be temperamental. . , . The rain. . . ." When a Park botanist saw one bud opening last week he was afraid to start premature hopes again, but two days later there were 20 blooms, next 43 more. Visitors were disappointed by the little yellowish blossoms, scarcely more spectacular than the buds. Last week's New Yorker, going to press before...
...Wash., you can climb over more ice, reach the third highest peak in the U. S.) In fact, so Alpine is Glacier's atmosphere that guest houses are called chalets. There are tepees of placid Blackfeet by mirrored lakes, lots of snow on the peaks, and the Government botanist keeps the hotels full of Indian paintbrush, tufted bear grass, harebell, Nancy-over-the-ground. He wants you to steal them. It will keep you from rooting up wildflowers in the park, which the Government assiduously cultivates. The Great Northern has a corner on Glacier rail travel just...