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Annual Report of the Board of Trustees
First report 1870/72, contains also a full transcript of the Journal of proceedings of the board.
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Statement of Disbursements of the House
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
Rhubarb
An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific inquiry from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Rarely, however, had there been a plant that so thoroughly frustrated Europeans' efforts to acquire it and to master its special botanical and chemical properties. Here Clifford Foust presents the remarkable efforts of the explorers, traders, botanists, gardeners, physicians, and pharmacists who tried to adapt rhubarb for convenient use in Europe. His is an intriguing tale of how humans and their institutions have been affected by natural realities they do not entirely comprehend. Readers interested in the his...
A Bibliography of Plant Genetics
In response to the widespread interest in genetics it has seemed worth while to make more generally available the large body of material bearing on this subject in the catalog of the Bureau of Plant Industry. The present bibliography has been compiled from this catalog, supplemented to some extent by articles from other sources. There has been no attempt to make it an exhaustive or systematic bibliography of the subject.
