Records of the Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory, 1898-1946 (inclusive).

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Records of the Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory, 1898-1946 (inclusive).

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Includes directors' files, containing correspondence, reports and photographs, of Thomas Barbour, Oakes Ames and Arthur Kevorkian. Also general correspondence with superintendents of the Garden and researchers, and plans, 1933, of the Garden. For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Ames, Oakes, 1874-1950

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Born in North Easton, Massachusetts on September 26, 1874, Oakes Ames was the son of Massachusetts Governor Oliver Ames. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1898, followed by a master's degree in 1900. Ames had a lengthy and distinguished career as a botanist, including serving as supervisor of the Arnold Arboretum from 1927-1937 and as the Arboretum's second director from 1937 to 1945. He was also a professor of botany at Harvard University. Ames died in Ormond, Florida on April 30,...

Barbour, Thomas, 1884-1946

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Barbour (1884-1946) graduated from Harvard in 1906 and taught zoology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Thomas Barbour, 1905-1935 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972958 ...

Harvard Experiment Station.

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Kevorkian, Arthur G.

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Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum.

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The Atkins Gardens was founded by Edwin F. Atkins, formally inaugurated in 1901 and given by him to Harvard University in 1919. The Harvard Experiment Station, as it was originally known, was located in Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba on about 200 acres. It consisted mostly of a living collection of woody plants from the tropics and sub-tropics, and also experimental fields for research in tropical crop botany and forestry. In 1932 the station was transfered to the Arnold Arboretum and renamed Atkins ...