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President Eliot specifies the need of increased endowment for a new Dental School building, for providing a laboratory of comparative pathology at the Bussey Institute, for the running expenses of the Veterinary Hospital, and for the Herbarium and Botanic Garden. The Arnold Arboretum needs $1,000,000 for proper maintenance, and the Chemical Department could use $350,000 for a new building. The desirability of an immediate enlargement of Gore Hall is also amply pointed...
...most valuable gift has been received by the Herbarium this year in the collection of autographs of botanists, given by Mrs. Asa Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist...
Besides this the Herbarium has received since last October over 4000 specimens of plants from various parts of the world. The largest number from one source were those from the Biltmore Herbarium, established by George W. Vanderbilt on his country estate at Asheville, N. C. It comprises 1665 specimens, many of which are rare Southern species. Another large assortment has been sent by Professor C. Conzatti of Oaxaca, Mexico. The plants are of South Mexican growth, a region which has received but little attention from botanists. Many speciamens from California, have been sent by Professor W. L. Jepson...
...William Sturgis Bigelow '71, and Arthur Astor Carey '79, Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year from January 1st, '98. The committees in the Board of Overseers were also made up for the year 1898. The only new committee was the committee to visit the Gray Herbarium, composed of Francis L. Higginson '63, F. H. Peabody, Charles F. Sprague '79, George G. Kennedy '64, George W. Hammond, Nathaniel T. Kidder '82, Emile F. Williams, Eugene Van R. Thayer, Edwin H. Abbot, Walter Deane...
...herbarium at the Botanical Garden is continually getting new specimens of rare plants, some of which come named and others unidentified. Dr. Robinson and his assistants are at present occupied in arranging a large and valuable collection of plants from Mexico. A box of plants has just been received from Alaska but has not yet been opened. It is feared that few of the specimens will prove to be in good condition, owing to the difficulty of collection in Alaska...