Word: herbarium
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OWING to the death of the Curator of the Gray Herbarium, the Herbarium and Library at the Botanic Garden will be closed to the public and the botanical lectures and classes at the Museum will be suspended until Saturday...
...Harvard Hall), $4,300 for fitting up a psychological laboratory and purchasing apparatus, books, etc., for the department of Psychology. Additional subscriptions from Dental School graduates for the immediate wants of the school, paid to Aug. 1st amount to $135, and additional subscriptions for the present use of the Herbarium, paid to the same date, $3,750. From Andrew P. Peabody $200 additional has been received for prizes for students in the Semitic languages for the academic year 1891-92. From Jacob H. Schiff $1,000 for book for a Semitic department reference library. From Charles Fairchild...
...Herbarium received large acquisitions during the past year. The collections in connection with the Botanic Garden have been transferred to quarters in the University Museum and this has resulted with great advantage to all concerned...
...close to the main entrance of the Arboretum. In design it is simple, the style being free Romanesque. There are a basement, two stories, and an attic. On the first floor are two large rooms 35*40 feet, designed for the museum collections. The second story contains the herbarium and the library, with the director's office and working rooms between...
...might fairly be called a Harvard man. He came here in 1842 when he was made Professor of Natural History. When he began his task he found the botanical collection hardly more than a small botanical garden. The work that he must have spent in building up his herbarium is shown by the fact that when, in 1864, he presented this great treasure of his to the college, it contained 200,000 specimens...