Word: herbaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...submitted to the Corporation his plan to reorganize the Department of Botany, there was little opposition expressed among the staff of the famous Jamaica Plain botanical garden. Among the many changes recommended by the plan, the most significant was a suggestion to combine the University's botanical libraries and herbaria, then housed in nine buildings. In their place the plan proposed "a single unit in as close proximity to the Biological Laboratories as possible," leaving only a working; library and herbarium at the Arborctum. Research in Jamaica Plain, it was felt, was then hindered by crowding and fire-hazard conditions...
Besides the material now in the Gray Herbarium, which will close after the opening of the new building, the Botany building will include libraries and herbaria formerly included in the Botanical Museum, Biological laboratories, and Arnold Arboretum...
Noteworthy among the herbaria to be exhibited are the Paleobotanical Collection from the Botanical Museum, and the inclusive Oakes-Ames Orchid Collection from the Biological laboratories...
This so-called Bailey Report called for dividing botanical activities into two broad areas and unifying the libraries and herbaria in one building. At that time the Corporation voted to raise one million dollars for the building...
...September, 1950, the Corporation suspended fund-raising when the Overseers Visiting Committee of the Arnold Arboretum started to raise legal difficulties as to whether the transfer of the herbaria would not violate arboretum trust funds...