Word: plant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to classify properly a number of obscure species of tropical American plants, Professor Robinson, the curator of the Gray Herbarium, while abroad this summer, spent considerable time examining the types which are preserved in the various European collections. There so called types are the original plants, which such early scientific explorers as Mocino, Lagasca, Alauran, and others, took home with them as specimens of the new world's flora. Since, in botany, classification rests upon a historical basis, any one who first describes a new plant has the right to give that plant a scientific name, which, thereafter, must...
...Half-course 61, will also offer a new advanced course, Metallurgy 7, taking up metallurgical chemistry. Mining 101 will be given by Mr. Raymer, who will offer a new half-course, Mining 112, for the study of the hoists, pumps, drills, compressors, and haulage equipment of a mining plant. Mr. Sauveur will give a new course of research in "Metallography and the Physics of Metals...
...also proposed to place in Sanders Theatre a stereopticon lantern of the latest kind, and in the University museum a new electric plant will be built, by which two or three stereopticons will be operated...
...Lecture. X. Some Economic Phases of Plant Toxicology. Rodney H. True, Ph.D. University Museum, room...
...Lecture. X. Some Economics Phases of Plant Toxicology. Rodney H. True, Ph.D. University Museum, room...