Word: herbarium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dormitories were in readiness at the beginning of the last College year. The Library was finished and dedicated at Commencement last June; the Cruft High Tension Laboratory was occupied early in 1915, the addition to the Peabody Museum somewhat earlier. The remodelling of the central part of the Gray Herbarium was completed in the spring...
Progress in the building activities in the University during the academic year 1914-15 has been marked by the completion of two new buildings, the Widener Library and the Cruft Memorial Laboratory; and additions have been made to the University Museum and the Gray Herbarium in the Botanic Garden. The new Germanic Museum and the CRIMSON building on Plympton street are now under construction...
Section of Herbarium Remodeled...
...reconstruction of the central part of the Gray Herbarium, which was begun in 1912, was completed this spring. This section of the building includes, besides several rooms for special purposes, the main hall, a room of considerable size, provided with two steel and glass galleries and surrounded by a triple row of steel herbarium cases. This room, well lighted and equipped with furnishings highly perfected for its purposes, contains also a bronze relief of Dr. Gray by Saint Gaudens, several busts, and many portraits of distinguished botanists...
...rebuilt, the Herbarium consists of the Kidder wing, at the rear, built in 1910 through the liberality of N. T. Kedder of Milton, and containing a considerable part of the plant collection; the Library wing, the gift of Dr. G. G. Kennedy of Milton, built in 1911 and including the library and administrative offices; the G. R. White laboratories of systematic botany, forming a wing extending toward the conservatories and containing the Harvard and Radcliffe laboratories; and the central section described above...