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Howard’s expertise in botany proved useful during World War II. Serving in the Army, Howard produced survival manuals that taught soldiers downed in the Pacific to live off the land in extreme conditions...
...just back from fighting in the Pacific kept bringing strange problems to Howard when they learned he was a botanist. What should they eat if forced down in the jungle?” a 1953 article published in Newsweek read...
...rest of Howard’s life, botany and international affairs often seemed to cross paths. When opportunities for exchange between American and Chinese botanists opened up around 1980, Howard was among the first 20 delegates to travel there, according to David Boufford, assistant director for collections at the Harvard Herbaria, who also worked with Howard...
Professor of Biology Noel M. Holbrook ’82 traveled with Howard on his trip to Cuba in the late 1990s to visit a famous botanical garden which Harvard managed prior to the Cuban Revolution...
...There are some people who walk into a room, and they’re there, and you feel their presence,” Wood said. “I think Dr. Howard was like that...