Word: herbaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same period 265 series, totaling 26, 732 duplicates, were sent in exchange to 90 other herbaria in 22 different countries. During the year 68 loans of approximately 6000 technically important specimens were sent out for critical study by specialists in this country and in Argentina, Britain, Germany, Holland and Sweden...
Besides discussing the work of the Gray Herbarium and its rating with other herbaria, Professor Merritt L. Fernald '97, Curator, described the gifts which the Herbarium had received during the last year in his annual report...
...Gray Herbarium is rated as one of the world's seven preeminent herbaria by the International Botanical Congress, Dr. Fernald states. The only comparable American herbarium is in the New York Botanical Garden, and the other five outstanding collections are in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Great Britain...
...continual moisture, supplied by low-lying clouds. Here scores of odd lichens, curious, climbling epiphytic plants, growing on all available tree trunks in the darkly forested places gave witness to the unending persistency of jungle life, besides affording rich material for the steel cases of the Farlow and Gray Herbaria back in Cambridge. Not equipped for extensive zoological work, the collectors, nevertheless, bore home some animals, including bats, reptiles, insects, and amphibians for the Museum of Comparative Zoology...