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...regular cabinet meeting of Phillips Brooks House last night Dana Fernald '46 of Adams House was elected co-Chairman of the Contact Committee and Kent C. Fry '46 of Lowell House was named Chairman of the War Volunteers section of the War Service Committee...
...under the leadership of Doctor Gray, who ambitiously despatched specimen collectors all over the globe, and who himself engaged in careful research work and carried on a detailed correspondence with Darwin and other prominent scientists of the period. At present, the Herbarium is under the direction of Merritt L. Fernald '97. Fisher Professor of Natural History...
...important service of the Herbarium specialists has been in the identification of thousands of "puzzling or difficult plants" sent in by institutions, collectors, or amateurs, Professor Fernald reported...
Foreign wars have cut down the loan activities of the Herbarium, Professor Fernald reported. The Harvard specialists borrowed some 6,189 specimens for study, and loaned out 6,757 for study elsewhere. These figures are down considerably from last year...
...Herbarium's field work, Professor Fernald assembled 7,282 sheets of critically important specimens in southeastern Virginia, a historic region of American botanical study. This exploration yielded more than 100 specimens never before known in the region, and 20 new to science...