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Besides discussing the work of the Gray Herbarium and its rating with other herbaria, Professor Merritt L. Fernald '97, Curator, described the gifts which the Herbarium had received during the last year in his annual report...
...Gray Herbarium is rated as one of the world's seven preeminent herbaria by the International Botanical Congress, Dr. Fernald states. The only comparable American herbarium is in the New York Botanical Garden, and the other five outstanding collections are in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Great Britain...
...continual moisture, supplied by low-lying clouds. Here scores of odd lichens, curious, climbling epiphytic plants, growing on all available tree trunks in the darkly forested places gave witness to the unending persistency of jungle life, besides affording rich material for the steel cases of the Farlow and Gray Herbaria back in Cambridge. Not equipped for extensive zoological work, the collectors, nevertheless, bore home some animals, including bats, reptiles, insects, and amphibians for the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...Dodge, Curator of the Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of the University, has been delegated to obtain additional material for a volume on the lichen flora of Costa Rica and to study type material of lichens in several European herbaria. Dr. Dodge is chairman of the committee on the New England Flora of the Boston Mycological Club, and has published many papers on the subject of lichens...
...MUSEUM WALK, to see the Museum Exhibit, the Private Herbaria and Laboratories of Cryptogamic Botany at the University Museum. Leaders: Professors Farlow and Thaxter. Men meet at 10 A. M., at the University Museum, middle entrance...