Records of Harvard Botanic Garden, 1864-1945 (inclusive).

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Records of Harvard Botanic Garden, 1864-1945 (inclusive).

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Includes financial records; notebook listing ferns and willows, 1872-1873; maps and plans of the garden, 1888-1924; and miscellaneous notes and reports, 1866-1930. Financial records consist of account book, 1864-1875; financial history of garden, 1934, and a memorandum, 1945, from Merrill.

7 folders, 2 notebooks, 4 plans and 1 map.

Harvard University, Gray Herbarium

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Harvard Botanic Garden.

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Harvard Botanic Garden was established by Harvard University in 1805, and was directed by William Dandridge Peck until his death in 1822. Succeeding curators or directors included: Thomas Nuttall (1822-ca. 1833); Asa Gray (1842-1872); Charles Sprague Sargent (1872-1879); George Lincoln Goodale (1879-1909); Oakes Ames (1909-1922); Stephen Hamblin (1922-1930); Robert H. Woodworth (1930-1935); and Elmer D. Merrill (1935-1946). Herbaceous plant specimens in the Garden were given to Lexington Botanic...

Allen, John, actif 1801

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Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956

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Elmer Drew Merrill was born in East Auburn, Maine in 1876 and died in 1956. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Maine in 1898 and his master's in 1904. In 1902 he went to the Philippines where he remained for 21 years as professor of botany at the University of the Philippines and director of the Bureau of Science at Manila. He was a director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard and administrator of the botanical collections there. Before coming to Harvard in 1935 he served as...

Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927

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Sargent graduated from Harvard in 1862, taught horticulture at Harvard and was director of the Arnold Arboretum. From the description of Papers of Charles Sprague Sargent, 1862-1879 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972874 Dendrologist, first director of Arnold Arboretum, and professor of agriculture, 1879-1927. From the description of [Horticultural list and autograph], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55531532 S...