Word: herbaria
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...daily life is completely nuts. I'm like a ping-pong ball. There isn't much structure," Donoghue says of his life as director of the Harvard Herbaria dealing with administrative issues, as well as teaching and researching the evolution and diversity of plants...
Donoghue says that he is also very proud to be associated with the Harvard Herbaria, a vast collection of dried plant specimens...
According to Donoghue, the Harvard Herbaria is the eighth largest herbarium in the world and the largest herbarium associated with a university...
...Gapified. But Gapifation has extended to food--we are what we eat. The last decade has witnessed an explosion of restaurants filled with brass and glass, Murphy's Oil Soaped wood, Tiffany lamps and ferns, lots of ferns. Part bar, part restaurant, part amusement park, these mini-herbaria all bring us the same mediocre food at the same modest prices, the same all over the country...
...research as well as the material gathered by the previous biographers, has produced an incredibly well-documented book, with 75 pages of endnotes. In his quest for detail, the author has even gone so far as to inquire of Dr. Peter F. Stevens, curator of Harvard's herbaria, the genus of a sprig of leaves that an admirer enclosed in a letter to Holmes. He also checked Harvard library records to determine exactly what day Holmes checked out a particularly important book on mysticism during his college days...