HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



on exhibition in the Darwin Hall were presented by Mr. C. P. Hunt- 

 ington in 1891. 



A flawless plank of the California redwood, measuring six feet in 

 width and seventeen feet in length was added to the collection by Mr. 

 Jesup in 1905. 



Specimens of foreign woods were among the very early accessions 

 of the Museum. They were received in 1876, being portions of ex- 

 hibits of the different countries at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposi- 

 tion. Jamaica and Bermuda presented their entire exhibit, containing 

 a rich display of tropical woods. Brazil, Argentine Republic, and 

 Mexico presented a number of specimens from their exhibit, while 

 others were received from Japan, Turkey, and the Hawaiian Islands. 



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The Jesup collection of North American woods was brought to- 

 gether under the supervision and direction of Professor Charles Sprague 

 Sargent, of Harvard University, under whose charge Mr. Jesup placed 

 the Department of Economic Botany, when it was established in 1880. 

 Professor Sargent was at that time preparing a report for the Tenth 

 Census of the United States on "The Forest Wealth of the United 

 States." Professor Sargent is an arboriculturist of note. He was 

 appointed Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard in 1873, and 

 since 1879 has been Professor of Arboriculture there. 



Mrs. Mary Robeson Sargent executed the water color sketches 

 which illustrate the foliage, flower, and fruit of the trees in the Jesup 

 collection of woods. 



Mr. C. G. Pringle and Mr. A. H. Curtiss were engaged to collect 



specimens for the wood collection. It was as agents for Mr. Jesup that 



Mr. Pringle increased the existing knowledge of the trees of Arizona 



a. h. Curtiss. and Southern California, and Mr. Curtiss that of the semitropical 



forests of Southern California. 



Charles 



Sprague 



Sargent, 



LL.D. 



1880. 



Mrs. Mary 



Robeson 



Sargent. 



C. G. Pringle. 



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