Word: herbarium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard moved about 57,000 books and 600,000 plant specimens to the University Herbarium in 1953. The Association for the Arnold Arboretum later sought their return, the Arboretum later sought their return, alleging that Harvard had tried to increase its prestige at the Arboretum's expense...
...There is no implication that, to promote these purposes [of the trust], the library and herbarium could not be maintained in Cambridge," the Court concluded. Justice: Whittemore was joined in the majority opinion by Associate Justices John V. Spalding '20 and R. Aml Cutter...
...Court's decision however, requires the University to fulfill certain other obligations towards the Arboretum. These Include the improvement of the working library at the Jamaica Plain site, the proper catologuing and identification of all Arboretum materials now in the University Herbarium, and an appropriate notice at the Cambridge location identifying the Arnold Arboretum materials...
...most of its library and collection of botanical specimens are in Cambridge. Harvard transfered 57,000 of its 64,000 books and pamphlets and 600,000 of its 700,000 specimens to the Harvard University Herbarium, at 22 Divinity...
...arboretum is a collection of trees and shrubs grown for educational purposes, an herbarium is a collection of dried plants...