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NEW LIBRARY BUILDING FOR 

 HARVARD BOTANICAL GARDENS 



Gift of $25,000 From Anonymous Source 

 Makes Possible Wew Structure for 

 the Gray Ilerbai-inm. 



Cambridge, May 3.-A $35,000 gift from 

 anonymous sources has made possible the 

 construction of a new library for the Gray 

 Herbarium of the Harvalrd botanical gar- 

 dens. Work on the new structure is to be- 

 gin at once. 



The old wing of the building, in which 

 the library is now contained, is to be re- 

 moved and the new structure is to 'be built 

 on lines similar to those used in the con- 

 struction of the KMder wing, on which 

 work has been progressing for the past 

 two years. Fireproof material only is to 

 be used in order that the 20,000 books and 

 pamphlets that are said to make up the 

 j most valuable botanical literature collec- 

 Uon in the country may be adequately 

 protected. Tt Is the plan to replace ulti- 

 mately all the old buildings that compoae 

 1 the group. 



The Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, 

 is to have new quarters for its library. The 

 structure will be a two-story addition to the 

 present building and will extend to the west 

 taking the place of the old library wing, and 

 covering part of the site recently occupied by 

 the Asa Gray House, which was removed 

 some weeks ago. The addition will be oi 

 similar construction to the Kidder wmg. 

 The library, which will be placed in the new 

 building, is devoted to the classification of 

 flowering plants and ferns. It contains more 

 than 20 000 volumes and pamphlets, ihe gUt 

 which makes possible the erection of the new 

 building amounts to $25,000; it comes from 

 an anonymous friend of the university. 



