Museum soon attracted the attention of 



vard institutions: the M 



De- 



Med 



while others used the facility occasionally. 



The press was so successful that Professor Ames decided to 

 try to print a full size book. In July 1936, the first, all hand-set, 

 volume of 234 pages in Scotch Roman type, printed two pages at 

 a time, was completed, and Ames, Hubbard and Schweinfuth, 

 the genus EPiDENDkUM was published. It should be mentioned 

 that only 16 pages were set and printed at a time, then the type 

 distributed so that another 16 pages could be set. The quality of 

 this hand-set book on fine paper caused admiration in botanical 

 circles which in turn gave the impetus for continuing the printing 

 of books on an intermittent basis. 



Realizing that a "job press" was not the right equipment to 

 print the kind of books that he wanted to produce in the future, 

 Professor Ames, in October 1937, purchased a 12 x 18 Chandler 

 and Price power-press equipped with an automatic feeding sys- 

 tem. This excellent press, although now outdated, is still in use 

 45 years later. 



The printing of the second book Ames, economic annuals 

 and human culture, 160 pages, 7'/ 2 x 12 inches, was completed 

 in December 1939. From that time on, the press had very little 

 time to rest. During 1939, Vestal and Schultes, the economic 

 botany of the kiowa Indians, 1 10 pages, was also printed. In 

 1940, Taylor, plants used as curatives by certain southeast- 

 ern tribes; in 1941, Schultes, a contribution to our knowl- 

 edge of rivea corymbosa, 45 pages; in 1947, Ames, drawings 

 of Florida orchids, 190 pages, 63 plates, and in 1948, Ames, 

 orchids in retrospect, 172, pages were all published. 



During the intervening time, between 1941 and 1970, the press 

 also printed johnsonta, the occasional journal of the Mollusk 

 Department of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and for 

 the same department, from 1945 onward, the occasional pap- 

 ers on mollusks were produced. 



In June 1976, after 46'/: years of service to the botanical world 

 in general and to the Harvard community in particular, Howard 



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