Word: herbarium
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...herbarium holds 57,000 specimens, and the Ames gift also included an orchid library of 1,800 volumes, and a sum of $68,000 to endow a curatorship. Professor Ames has been a member of the Harvard staff since 1899, with the rank of full professor since...
When Earl Bemis died last year he bequeathed $200,000 to the Gray Herbarium, but no one around Harvard's giant plant collection has seen...
Gathered from all parts of the world, more than 48,000 sheets of mounted plant specimens were added in the past year to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, making a total collection of 994,704, the greatest in America and the finest in the world in North and South America flora, Merritt L. Fernald, Director, and Fisher Professor of Natural History, said today in his annual report...
Plant exchanges were made in the year with more than fifty institutions in the United States, and with institutions in twenty-three foreign countries. Thirty investigators from Europe and America came to the herbarium to study...
...herbarium building, in the Botanic Garden in Cambridge was completed in 1915, but the collection has grown so rapidly that the building is overcrowded and must soon be enlarged, Professor Fernald reported...