Word: herbarium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farr '27, counsel for the Corporation, and Robert G. Dodge, counsel for the Arboretum, both now expect Spaulding to rule within two weeks. If Spaulding should decide against the Corporation, the University will have to return thousands of dried plant specimens and a substantial library housed in the University Herbarium to the arboretum, from which they were moved in June...
...about 1,200 members, have accused the University of exceeding its power as sole trustee of the Arboretum by moving in 1953 most of the institution's library, thousands of dried plant specimens valued at $5 million and several members of the staff from Jamaica Plain to the University Herbarium...
Henry David Thoreau's seed plants are examined by REED C. ROLLINS, Director of the Gray Herbarium at the University Herbarium. Six portfolios of dried and mounted specimens collected by Thoreau were given to the University recently by the Trustees of the Concord Free Public Library...
...seed plants were presented by Thoreau to the Boston Society of Natural History, and by the Society to the Concord Library. Thoreau's collections of grasses and sedges, the property of the New England Botanical Club, are also deposited at the University Herbarium...
Dean Bundy, speaking for the Corporation, has argued that it is to the Arboretum's "best interests" for its herbarium and library to be housed with the University's own botanical collections in Cambridge...