Word: linnean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These lectures will be held in the lecture hall of Building D at the Harvard Observatory, the entrances to which are on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street and at 60 Garden Street opposite Linnean. If the weather permits, those attending the program will be given the opportunity to make telescopic observations of celestial bodies. The planet Saturn will be one of the particular objects of study...
...Boston society is the third oldest scientific museum in the U. S.* In 1830, a group of people who liked birds and fish met in Boston at the home of Dr. Walter Channing, obstetrician, to plan a museum. Seven years prior, the Linnean Society of New England had broken up, giving the natural history exhibits which it had collected for nine years to Harvard College, which gladly passed the collection to the new museum...