Word: herbarium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Alfred Rehder, curator of the herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum since 1918 as associate professor of dendrology, and Henry A. Wood, Jr. '24, as deputy treasurer to fill the place left vacant by the election of John W. Lowes '19 as financial vice-president of the College...
...gifts from Earl Willson Bemis, retired engineer of Worcester, Massachusetts, of $50,000 each to the Astronomical Observatory and the Gray Herbarium was announced yesterday by Henry L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of Harvard College...
...gift to the Gray Herbarium, called the Elizabeth Stone Fund, comes as a supplement to an endowment of $100,000 made by Mr. Bemis last year. It will be used in forwarding the work being done in collecting specimens of flowering plants, ferns, and fern-allies at the Herbarium under the direction of Benjamin L. Robinson '87, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and curator of the Herbarium...
...Gray Herbarium is situated in the Botanic Garden of Harvard University on Garden Street, Cambridge. It includes a collection of more than 800,000 sheets of mounted specimens representing the flowering plants, ferus and fern-allies from all parts of the world. The original collection was founded by the late Asa Gray and given by him to the University...
...collections, as well as to insure safety from fire, the original building was taken down and rebuilt by sections during the years 1909 to 1915. The present building includes the plant collections, library and laboratories, and also quarters used by the New England Botanical Club. Curator of the Gray Herbarium is B. L. Robinson '67, Ass. Gray Professor of Systematic Botany...