Word: speciment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physic was a stiff dose of merger. The bailey Plan was to lump together as many of the book and speciment collections as possible, selling off duplicates. It also looked to centralization, to splitting the field into two Areas, each with a chairman, presided over by a Biological Council. The Arboretum fell on both sides of the dividing line: the living collections were to go into one Area, and all research dependent on preserved matter would go into the other. The herbarium and library were slated to be moved to Cambridge...
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