Word: herbarium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attorney General's Information, field against the University in the interest of friends of the Arnold Arboretum, charges that the Corporation violated the terms of the trust establishing the Arboretum when it moved a large quantity of plant materials and books to the University Herbarium in Cambridge...
...Herbarium: A collection of dried plants...
...specify any particular place for the library and Arboretum, and that the purposes of scientific investigation could best be served if much of this material was placed near the laboratories and students. Thus the University claims that it has served the best interests of the Arboretum and its herbarium by moving certain parts to Cambridge...
...Corporation voted to transfer part of the Arnold Library and Herbarium to the University Herbarium and in 1954 the officials of the University completed the transfer...
Located just north of the University Herbarium, the Cambridge Electron accelerator is a joint Harvard-M.I.T. project financed by the Atomic Energy commission. The $11.5 million "atom-smasher," now nearly five years in the asking, will completely dwarf present electron accelerators...