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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Mr. Hamblin, plans are now being made to build a bigger botanic garden somewhere else, as an outlet for the enthusiasm for gardening, and to divert feeling in the present situation. "Whether or not the Garden can be used for anything other than a botanic garden is for the proper officials to say," was his statement. "The public will soon center its interests on something else...
...Mr. Hamblin has a letter from Roger Wolcott '99, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Overseers, written during May, at the time when the Visiting Committees to the Botanic Garden, the Botanical Museum, and the Department of Botany were consolidated into one group. The second paragraph of this communication, which is reproduced in full below, indicates that no changes in the conduct of the Garden were planned at the time it was written...
Professor Stephen F. Hamblin, Lexington, Mass. Dear Mr. Hamblin...
There is no misunderstanding of the Garden problem on the part of the Board of Overseers, for Mr. Lowell was present and voted "Yes" on the consolidation of committees, which will go into effect next September. Mr. Straus was also present and voted...
...have written instructions and an oral witness to his oral order to prove that Mr. Lowell ordered the gates closed. The locking of the gates and the building of the fence were my understanding of his definite instructions. The Gray Herbarium, being an entirely separate institution, was not closed...