Word: herbarium
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...Columbia men and other scholars who are capable of using it to advantage are permitted to read and take out the books. The number of books is about 60,000 and each year a large number are being added. The building also shelters the famous Torrey herbarium with its 60,000 specimens. The object of the librarian to give to the books the greatest accessibilities with the least possible inconvenience to the reader. The libraries of the several schools are now brought together under one administration, and the law librarian, the science librarian, and other specialists are staff officers...
...Isaac Burk, the well-known botanical author, has presented the University of Pennsylvania with his large and valuable herbarium...
...Isaac Burk, the well-known botanical author, has presented the University of Pennsylvania with his large and valuable herbarium...
...Bailey, Jr., B. S., assistant in the Herbarium, has been appointed instructor in taxonomy and phylography in the Correspondence University...
...contains, on the first floor, a parlor, reception rooms, matron's rooms and several students' rooms; and, on the other floors, a library, preacher's parlor, music rooms, infirmary and dormitories. The south wing gives accommodations for the botanical department of the university, a lecture room, analyzing rooms, herbarium, professor's study and museum. Recent additions have greatly increased the facilities of the botanical department...