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...other hand the Biology department at Harvard is one of the best. It is better off financially than most, there are many outside institutions, such as the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Gray Herbarium, the Arnold Arboretum, the Botanical Museum, and the Harvard Forest, to mention only a few, connected with the department of Biology. The Biological Laboratory has excellent facilities, and there is an adequate library devoted to the department. Lastly the Faculty is large and brilliant...
Speaking at a recent scientific forum as part of the three-day exercises dedicating the Benjamin Franklin memorial of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Merritt L. Fernald, Fisher Professor of Natural History and Director of the Gray Herbarium, branded the "misguided and enthusiastic young men" of he CCC as destroyers of the "natural equilibrium of nature...
...Biol. Lab. Lect. Rm. 26b Mon. at 2 Zool. Mus. 101 27 Tues. at 3 Biological Lab. B150 29 Tues. at 11 Biological Lab. B443 33 Tues. at 10 Biological Lab. A115 40 Consult Professor Wyman 106a Mon. at 2 Biol. Lab. D470-76 110a Mon. at 3 Gray Herbarium 112a Tues. at 2 Biological Lab. D274 115a Mon. at 4 Biological Lab. B225 Chemistry 4 Mon. at 2 Mallinckrodt M222 7 Tues. at 12 Mallinckrodt MB8 15 Mon. at 10 Mallinckrodt MB23 16 Mon. at 10 Mallinckrodt MB8 17a Mon. at 9 MallinckrodtMB8 26 Consult Professor G. P. Baxter...
Field parties went out from the herbarium during the year to make collections in Virginia, Cuba, Canada, and Alaska...
From many parts of the world, field collections were presented to the herbarium, as follows: 249 ferns of Cuba: 118 plants of Colombia; 24 rare species secured on Arctic expeditions; 459 plants of Del Norte Country, California; three isotypes of new srectes; 237 plants of Hawaii; 42 rare plants of Indiana; 30 plants of Costa Rica; 1761 plants from Brazil; 45 local or critical plants of California; 99 plants illustrating critical Flora of the Aleutian Islands; 292 plants of Jamaica and the southern United States; 3087 critical herbaceous plants, chiefly of South America and Mexico; 13 plants newly discovered...