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Word: herbarium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frans Verdoorn, formerly of Leiden, Holland, well known hepatieologist who has been editor and publisher of the Review of Bryology and Chronica Botanica, has been appointed Honorary Research Associate in Bryology at the Farlow Herbarium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Castle Appointed New Biological Labs Head | 12/5/1940 | See Source »

...Mount Auburn Street, about half a mile up the Charles river from Harvard Square, is Stillman Infirmary. On Concord Avenue, near the Radcliffe dormitories, is the Astronomical Observatory, and near it, on Garden Street, is the Gray Herbarium. In Boston, off the map, are the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Public Health...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TOPOGRAPHY ALWAYS BAFFLES FRESHMEN | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

...herbarium holds 57,000 specimens, and the Ames gift also included an orchid library of 1,800 volumes, and a sum of $68,000 to endow a curatorship. Professor Ames has been a member of the Harvard staff since 1899, with the rank of full professor since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oakes Ames Gives Orchid Collection to Harvard Museum | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

Included in the herbarium are some 15,000 different species of this rare flower, representing all the colors of the rainbow; some with leaves, others without; and some that grow and blossom underground. A majority of the flowers grew on rocks and in trees, but there are some non-wild and common orchids of the type worn in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oakes Ames Gives Orchid Collection to Harvard Museum | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

...herbarium was directly given to the Harvard Museum, to which collectors from all over the globe annually send specimens for determination of species...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oakes Ames Gives Orchid Collection to Harvard Museum | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

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