Word: herbaria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Divinity Avenue sits the Harvard Herbaria, all but literally buried in the construction and renovation projects that will advance the University’s molecular biology labs and offices into the 21st century. But those espousing the widely-held stereotype that University President Lawrence H. Summers is an anti-humanities, pro-sciences economist will find no evidence for the latter half of this epithet in this quiet corner of the North Yard...
...species that inhabit this planet, and its questions concern no less than their origin, evolution and preservation. Pellegrino University Professor E.O. Wilson—one of the pioneers of biodiversity studies—advanced his now world-famous conservation studies here at Harvard. The OEB’s Herbaria houses 5.5 million plant specimens, filed in rooms of endless metal chests, including the largest, most important collection in the world of Chinese plant species; the Museum of Comparative Zoology has an impressive 21 million specimens to its name...
...probably did more than any botanist I know to bring botany to the people,” said Emily Wood, manager of the systematics collections at the Harvard Herbaria, who worked under Howard...
...areas that no longer exist, because of development and politics and all sorts of things,” said Donald H. Pfister, director of the Herbaria. “He might have had the last glimpse in certain parts of those islands before they were destroyed...
...Howard’s life, botany and international affairs often seemed to cross paths. When opportunities for exchange between American and Chinese botanists opened up around 1980, Howard was among the first 20 delegates to travel there, according to David Boufford, assistant director for collections at the Harvard Herbaria, who also worked with Howard...