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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...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Arboretum: Dry Leaves and Discontent | 10/21/1954 | See Source »

...Papa Bonelli" gave some excellen character touches. All that can be done to "put the play across" the company does, and we can only place ourselves with the host of Miss Anglin's friends who regret that she should be wasting her splendid powers and company on this particular speciment of the conventional French melodrama...

Author: By W. B., | Title: SPLENDID ACTING BY MARGARET ANGLIN | 10/6/1921 | See Source »

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