Thursday, June 27, 1929 



S2< Waehinoton Strbbt. Boston, Mabi. 



(■Entered at the Post Offloe, Boston, Mat*., 

 aa Second Class MaU Matter) 



TUESDAY, OCTOBER 89, 1929 



Transfer Harvard 



Botanic Garden 



Direction of the Har\'ard Botanic Gar- 

 t den, possibly the oldest Institution ot Its 

 ! kind in the United States, has been trans- 

 i ferred to. the Harvard department of bot- 

 ^ any, according to an official statement of 

 President A. I^wrence Lowell given out 

 today at TJnlversity Hall. Heading: the 

 work of the Garden la R. H. Woodworth, 

 Instructor in botany, who replaces S. F. 

 Hamblin, assistant professor in the 

 School of Landscape Architecture, for- 

 merly instructor in Horticulture and di- 

 rector ot the Garden. The text of Presi- 

 dent Lowell's statement follows: 



Some years ago a number ot peo- 

 ple Interested in gardening asked the 

 corporation to conduct the Garden 

 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 oC this 

 fact, and of the compai-atlvely sninll 

 Wntlflc value of horticulture to the 

 University, the Garden liad belter be 

 used for scientific purposes. The direc- 



