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Botany Libraries

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The Harvard University Herbaria house five comprehensive, non-circulating research libraries that are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries. The combined collections are rich repositories of rare books, manuscripts, field notes, and historical...

Use of the Libraries

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The Botany Libraries' reading rooms are open to all researchers regardless of academic affiliation but registration is required. Harvard users should present a valid Harvard I.D or other form of identification when arriving. Non-Harvard visitors are asked...

Botany Libraries Inventories

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Administrative Papers General Administration, 1981-1989 Botany Libraries Advisory Committee, 1986-1989 Herbarium Library Executive Committee, 1981-1985 Gray/Arnold Library Committee, 1974-1980 Botany Libraries Annual Reports, 1959-1989 Botany Libraries...

Gray Herbarium Library

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Asa Gray (1810-1888) is well known as the "Father of American Botany" and champion of Charles Darwin. He was called to Harvard in 1842 as the new Fisher Professor of Natural History. At that point there was no herbarium, no library, and only a small...

Arnold Arboretum Library

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Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927) was educated at Harvard, served in the military, and traveled Europe for a few years before returning to Boston and taking over the management of the family estate, Holm Lea. Sargent did not have a formal botany...

Gray Herbarium and Library

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"Dr. Asa Gray has presented to the University his invaluable Herbarium and his Botanical Library; which have been safely transferred to the fire-proof building furnished, at a cost of over twelve thousand dollars, by the generosity of Nathaniel Thayer...

Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany

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William Gilson Farlow (1844-1919) was an eminent mycologist and phycologist and the first Professor of Cryptogamic Botany in North America. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1870, Farlow stayed in Cambridge as an assistant to Professor Asa...

Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames

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Oakes Ames (1874-1950), was hired as an Instructor of Botany immediately after receiving his Master's degree from Harvard in 1900. Thus began a career at Harvard which lasted 50 years. In 1926 he became a full Professor of Botany and moved on to hold the...

Botany Library provides course support

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Botany Library staff recently brought original Darwin letters, photos, and an annotated copy of The Origin of the Species from our collections into The Department of the History of Science Professor Janet Browne's course, The Darwinian Revolution.

Herbaria Library Books Made from Plants

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We here at the HUH Library were amazed to discover that all our books are made from plants! Turns out that the pages are made from a substance that is derived from trees. Imagine that! Books about plants made from plants! Consul noster aeterno usu te...