Papers of Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1938-1953.

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Papers of Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1938-1953.

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The Beatrix Farrand papers include correspondence (1938-1953) primarily to Arnold Arboretum administrators Paul C. Mangelsdorf, E.D. Merrill, Karl Sax, and Donald Wyman during and after her years as consultant landscape gardener to the Arboretum. Included in the correspondence are plant lists for the administration building and various locations in the Arboretum garden. Some publications written by Farrand are included from Arnoldia, Reef Point Gardens bulletin, and the Bulletin of popular information. A general file folder is also included with some biographical material and obituaries.

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Arnold Arboretum

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The planning for the Arnold Arboretum Centennial celebration began in 1967 when Dr. Richard A. Howard, Arboretum Director from 1954-1978, appointed committees of supporters and visiting-committee members to raise funds for the upcoming event. The week-long celebration (May 21-28, 1972) opened with a banquet in a downtown Boston hotel that featured an address by William T. Stearn, famous taxonomist and botanist from the British Museum of Natural History. Events included a daylong symposium on "Po...

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Wyman, Donald, 1903-

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Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959

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Beatrix Jones Farrand opened her landscape design office in New York in 1895. In 1899 she achieved the distinction of being the only female founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architecture. Farrand's career spanned the next five decades and included notable projects such as Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C., Dartington Hall in Devonshire, England, and Princeton University. In addition, Farrand wrote numerous articles for publication and gave talks on landscape architecture. Thro...

Sax, Karl, 1892-1973

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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...