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For many years one of the buildings most needed at Cambridge has been a hall for our art collections. Professor Norton and others have written eloquent appeals on the subject, but to no purpose until now. By the will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins Fogg. the widow of William...
Twenty-eighth: I give and bequeath to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars upon the trust and the uses following. that is to say, that the said corporation shall without unreasonable delay erect upon land belonging or to belong to...
It will be many years before the collection will be complete, the artists being now engaged upon it, and being under contract to work upon it without intermission until completed. It is entirely unique, no institution or individual in the world possessing anything like it. Some four hundred specimens have...
The work was begun and is carried on under Professor Goodale's own immediate direction, a fact which ensures its value in very respect. Its use in botanical instruction has been made the first object; its aesthetic value to botanical students and all lovers of flowers the second. Happily this...
The collection will be placed in a room on the left of the staircase on the third floor of the new museum. A case containing some thirty or forty specimens has lately been placed there and may be seen by members of the University (it is not open to the...