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Alfred Rehder, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, has been awarded the Loder Rhododendron Cup for 1936 by the Royal Horticultural Society of London. This cup has been awarded annually since 1921, but only three times has it gone outside of England...
Appointed research associate of the Gray Herbarium for the current half year, Nicholas Polunin heads the list of new faculty appointments. Polunin, Oxford '32; Henry Travelling Fellow 1933-34; is at present working at the Herbarium...
More than 200 rare plants of western New England and New York were sent to the Herbarium by Dr. Edwin H. Eames, an amateur botanist of Bridgeport, Conn...
More than 15,000 duplicate specimens were exchanged during the past year by the Gray Herbarium with active herbaris in the United States and Canada and with institutions in Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland...
...plants collected on field trips are pressed and dried between large blotters, being sent to the Herbarium in this condition. When the specimens are received at the Herbarium, the staff glues the specimens on cards which are then filed. Plants may thus be preserved idenfinitely. If a student wishes to study a particular flower he takes it from the dried water. The flower then unfolds and then may be examined...