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6. Oakes Ames, Director (1909-1922) 
7. Stephen F. Hamblin, Director (1923-1930) 
8. Robert H. Woodworth, Curator (1930-1935) 
9, Elmer D. Merrill, Supervisor (1935- 
Ras of income; A small endowment and gifts. Has received 
aid from Harvard College in compensation for illustrative 
sree supplied. Library: The Garden has on its premises, and 
of easy access, the Library of the Gray Herbarium amounting to 
about 39,000 volumes and pamphlets. Herbarium: The Gray Her- 
barium, of Harvard University (about 800,000 sheets). Planta- 
tions: Systematic. Arboretum and Fruticetum: (Harvard Uni- 
versity, of which the Botanic Garden is a small part, has all of 
these well developed at the Arnold Arboretum, g.v.). Jnstruc- 
tion: The Garden is constantly used by instructors connected with 
different parts of the University. Its function is to supply il- 
lustrative material, but classes from Harvard College are often 
brought, as are classes from neighboring schools to ane Garden. 
Affiliation: Formerly a separate Departm nent of Harvard Univer- 
sity. Since 1928 a part of the Department of Botany of the 
University. 
Announcement Concerning The Harvard Botanic Garden 
“The Harvard Botanic Garden, hitherto a separate department 
of the University, has been transferred to the Department of Bot- 
any. President Lowell has given out the following statement in 
connection with the change: ‘Some years ago a number of people 
interested in gardening asked the corporation to conduct the gar- 
den for horticultural objects, offering to pay the expenses involved, 
which the corporation was glad to do so long as the cost was thus 
defrayed. After a while the committee became weary of raising 
subscriptions, and last spring it was decided that in view of this 
fact, and of the comparatively small scientific value of horticulture 
to the University, the Garden had better be used for scientific pur- 
poses. The direction of the garden has, therefore, been trans- 
ferred to a member of the Department of Botany, who will use 
the small income of the endowment for the benefit of that Depart- 
ment.’ ’—Science 70: 605, December 20, 1929. 
Note: For Atkins Institution, Soledad, Cuba, see under Cuba, 
Soledad. 
