Leonard John (L.J.) Brass collection, 1925-1953.

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Leonard John (L.J.) Brass collection, 1925-1953.

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L.J. Brass served as botanist on the various Archbold Expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History. The Arnold Arboretum funded or co-sponsored several of these expeditions and received herbarium specimens and photographs. This collection depicts the flora, landscape, and ecology of the region as well as the indigenous people, their habitations, gardens, and agricultural practices. The Arboretum also holds Brass images of specific taxa which are organized and filed by under their Latin binomial genus and species in the historic photographic collection.

4 boxes, (14 linear inches).

Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8202233

Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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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...

Brass, L.J. (Leonard John), 1900-1971.

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Leonard J. Brass (1900-1971) was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, on May 17, 1900. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1947. Brass first became a collector for the Arnold Arboretum in October 1925 when he led a two year expedition to New Guinea. Brass continued to collect for the Arboretum on the Solomon Islands and later for the Arboretum on several New Guinea expeditions. There are approximately 2,500 herbarium specimens collected by Brass held by the Harvard University Herba...