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Henry David Thoreau's seed plants are examined by REED C. ROLLINS, Director of the Gray Herbarium at the University Herbarium. Six portfolios of dried and mounted specimens collected by Thoreau were given to the University recently by the Trustees of the Concord Free Public Library...
Thoreau gathered most of the specimens between 1850 and 1856, when he "traveled widely in Concord." After friends berated him for the beaten appearance of his hat, which he used to carry the plants after he picked them, he said, "It was not so much my hat as my botany...
...seed plants were presented by Thoreau to the Boston Society of Natural History, and by the Society to the Concord Library. Thoreau's collections of grasses and sedges, the property of the New England Botanical Club, are also deposited at the University Herbarium...
Life of the Party. In Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, Concord magazine discussed a woman who works in a mine, said: "Her unique experiences as processed by a lively wit make the lady miner-when she takes off her trousers and puts on her cosmetics-the most amusing evening companion south of the Sahara...
...once examined. Visiting chairmen of other English departments return to see the house which gave birth to their scholarly careers. Everyone agrees that something intangible contributes to making Warren House the indispensable institution it has become. Perhaps one professor best summed it up in quoting Santayana's description of Concord: "External humility and inward pride." ir?-, iohkRCcotkle