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Charles Sprague Sargent, first Director (1873-1879) 
George Lincoln Goodale, Director (1879-1909) 
Oakes Ames, Director (1909-1922) 
Stephen F. Hamblin, Director (1923-1930) 
Robert H. Woodworth, Curator (1930-1935) 
Elmer D. Merrill, Supervisor (1935— ) 
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Source of income: A small endowment, $78,491.68, and gifts. 
Previously it received some aid from Harvard College in compen- 
sation for illustrative material supplied. Library: The Garden 
has on its premises, and of easy access, the Library of the Gray 
Herbarium, amounting to about 39,600 volumes and pamphlets. 
Herbarium: The Gray Herbarium, of Harvard University (about 
950,000 sheets). Plantations; Systematic. Arboretum and Fru- 
ticetum: (Harvard University, of which the Botanic Garden is a 
small part, has all of these well developed at the Arnold Arbo- 
retum, Jamaica Plain, g.v.). The chief function of the Botanic 
Garden is to supply illustrative material for class use. Affiliation: 
Formerly a separate Department of Harvard University. In 1928 
it was made a part of the Department of Botany of the University ; 
it is now one of the nine separately endowed units under the 
general supervision of the Administrator of Botanical Collections, 
t 
lishment in . Much amplification of its work is impossible 
because of limited space and limited income. Note: For Atkins 
Institution, Soledad, Cuba, see under Cuba, Soledad. 
JAMAICA PLAIN 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
Established: 1872. The principal collections of trees and shrubs 
were not planted until 1886. Area: 265 acres. 
Directors: Charles Sprague Sargent (1872-1927) ; Elmer D. Mer- 
rill (1937- ). 
Supervisors: Oakes Ames (1927-1935) ; Elmer D. Merrill (1936). 
Note: The Arnold Arboretum owes its origin to Mr. James 
Arnold, a merchant of New Bedford who died in 1868, leaving 
to the trustees of his estate $100,000 to be devoted to the advance- 
ment of agriculture or horticulture. The trustees assigned the in- 
