John Milton Fogg Papers, 1931-1982.

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...

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning." Since the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, there have been twenty-eight presidents and five acting presidents (please see additional note for a complete list of Academy presidents). From 1937 to 1995, there were four pre...

Wherry, Edgar Theodore, 1885-

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"Edgar Theodore Wherry was born on September 10, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the Friends Central School in 1902, he received a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry in 1906 and a Ph.D. in Geology-Mineralogy in 1909. "He taught for five years as an assistant professor in the Geological Department of Lehigh University. In 1913, he became the assistant curator of mineralogy at the U.S. ...

Dudley, T.R. (Theodore R.), 1936-

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Fogg, John M. (John Milton), 1898-1982

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Dr. John Milton Fogg, Jr., was a botanist, University of Pennsylvania professor, Dean, and Vice Provost, director of the Morris Arboretum, instructor at the Arboretum School of the Barnes Foundation, and director of the Barnes Foundation Arboretum. From the description of John Milton Fogg Papers, 1931-1982. (The Barnes Foundation). WorldCat record id: 704650574 ...

Ewan, Joseph, 1909-1999

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Joseph Ewan collected specimens for the Cinchona Project throughout the mid 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_91_pid_EACP90 ...

University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum.

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The Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania is the official Arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was formerly owned by Quaker siblings John Thompson Morris (1847-1915) and Lydia Thompson Morris (1849-1932), who acquired the area through the purchase of two large estates and surrounding lands--Compton in 1887 and Bloomfield in 1913. When Lydia died in 1932, she left the gardens to the University of Pennsylvania as t...

Barnes foundation

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Barnes, Laura L., 1875-1966

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E.R. Squibb & Sons

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Howard, Richard A. (Richard Alden)

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Richard Alden Howard (1917-) served as Vice President of Botanical Science at the New York Botanical Garden from 1989-1990. A systematic botanist whose specialty is economic botany and whose area of interest is the Caribbean, he performed extensive field work in the area, wrote over 300 papers and edited the six volume Flora of the Lesser Antilles. From 1954 to 1978, he served Harvard University as Arnold Professor of Botany and Director of the Arnold Arboretum. From 1978-1988 he was Professor o...