Word: linnaean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garden, which is situated at the corner of Garden and Linnaean Streets, Cambridge, was established in 1807 by a number of public-spirited gentlemen who endowed a professorship of Natural History. The seven acres which form the present Garden were laid out in 1807 by Professor William Daudrige Peck, with the formal lines of smaller Loudon establishments being used as a model. After the death of Professor Peck the Garden passed under the charge of Thomas Nuttall as Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income...
...series of five public lectures on astronomical subjects will be given this fall at the College Observatory, it has been announced. The Observatory, with entrances on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street and on Garden Street opposite Linnaean Street, will be open, the announcement states, on the dates of the lectures from 7.30 in the evening until 9 o'clock. A short non-technical talk will be preceded, when the weather permits, by telescope observation of celestial objects. Exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the staff...
...Observatory has two entrances, one on Concord Avenue, opposite Buckingham Street and the other on Garden Street opposite Linnaean Street...
Miss Henrietta S. Leavitt, for more than 20 years a member of the staff of the Harvard College Observatory, died at her home on Linnaean street last Monday. She was internationally known for her work on standards of stellar brightness and on variable stars, and in the course of her astronomical career she discovered more variable stars than any other person has ever done...