Word: plant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system at that college. "It has been known for some time," it cries, "that certain professors were very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system. For it is noteworthy that only that portion of the Harvard system has been...
...subjects of the lectures that Prof. Geo. L. Goodale will give before the Lowell Institute this year are as follows: "The Structure of the Plant;" "Relation of Plants to Water;" "Relations to the Soil;" "Relations of Air and Light;" "Relations to Air and Warmth;" "Most Favorable Conditions for Vegetable Activity;" "Conditions of Permanence, Means of Defence;" "Former Climates and Floras, and their Relations to Ours;" "The Floras of Extremes of Climate; The Frigid Zone, Deserts;" "The Flora of an Equitable Climate - The Equatorial Belt;" "The Flora of Variable Climates - The Temperate Zones;" "Acclimatization and Culture - The Production and Perpetuation...
Prof. Asa Gray, the renowned botanist, celebrated his seventieth birthday with his mental and physical powers in full vigor. The professor, in looking over an old herbarium, found a specimen of the fruit of a plant of which nothing was known. From this fruit he founded a genus, described and classified the unseen flower, and when, many years after, the plant was rediscovered in the mountains of North Carolina, the flower was found to answer his description in almost every particular. - [Scholastic...
...Natural History Society has offered three subjects for prize essays. The first is on the "Dis-semination of Seeds"; second, "Make a Collection of the Plants of one Family and note the Peculiarities of Station of each Plant"; third, "Character of Insects : Sub-orders." The prizes will be awarded, if any essays are deemed worthy of them, in January, 1881. They are : A first prize of $25 to the individual, and some seventy fossils, and ten geological models, to be deposited in his name in the school of which he is a member; a second prize...