Word: herbarium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from an anonymous friend, per Mr. Agassiz, $2500; Henry Lee, $1500 for the salary of an instructor in political economy; Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $4500 for prosecuting researches in stellar photography; Robert Waterston, $1000 for the library; Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, $2000 for salaries in the herbarium; Martin Brimmer, $2000; and John L. Gardner, $5000 toward the addition to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The total amount of gifts for immediate use is $36,024.59, and of gifts to form new funds or increase old ones, $987,551.14. The gifts from George W. Childs of a memorial...
...Board of Overseers was held at 70 Water St., Boston, yesterday morning, Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar in the chair. The business of the meeting consisted entirely in hearing and appointing committees. The committee on reports and resolutions recommended that the report of the committee on the botanic garden and herbarium be printed. The same committee also returned the report of the committee on the library, and recommended the appointment of a committee of five to take into consideration the petitions for voluntary attendance at morning prayers, from the Law School, the O. K. Society, and the members of the college...
...thousand new species of plants have been added to the University Herbarium of Cornell...
...Columbia men and other scholars who are capable of using it to advantage are permitted to read and take out the books. The number of books is about 60,000 and each year a large number are being added. The building also shelters the famous Torrey herbarium with its 60,000 specimens. The object of the librarian to give to the books the greatest accessibilities with the least possible inconvenience to the reader. The libraries of the several schools are now brought together under one administration, and the law librarian, the science librarian, and other specialists are staff officers...
...Isaac Burk, the well-known botanical author, has presented the University of Pennsylvania with his large and valuable herbarium...