Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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22 THE LLAMARADA Anne Sewell Young, Ph.l)., Professor B.L., M.S., Carlcton College; Ph.D., Columbia University; Goodsell Observatory, Northfield, Minnesota; University of Chicago; Yerkes Observatory; Columbia University; Professor of Mathematics at Whitman College, Walla W alla, Washington; Research Assistant at Yerkes Observatory; Principal of High School, Saint Charles, Illinois; Member of Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America; Fellow in Association for the Advancement of Science. Winona Fake, Indiana Anna Laura Oathout, B.S., Assistant I B.S., Carleton College; Time service, Goodsell Observatory, Northfield, Minnesota. mi Winona Street, Northfield, Minnesota Department of otanp Botany was included bv Miss Lyon in the curriculum of the first year, 1837-1838. and from that time until 1851 was a required subject during two or three years ot the course until it became entirely elective in 1897-98. Miss Mary M. Smith was the teacher of botany the first year. Many names are included in the list of those teaching the subject between 1837 and 1851, when Miss Lydia W. Shattuck became the head of the department and directed its interests until her death in 1889. Since that time the department has been in charge of Miss Hooker. Miss Lyon’s herbarium, still preserved intact, was the nucleus of the present collections. To this in 1861 Miss Shattuck added her own herbarium and continued during her life to secure in every way possible the plants now constituting the present collections. The botanical gardens were begun in 1878 by Miss Shattuck, the first plants being pur in with her own trowel. She was assisted by Mr. Levi Allen, still in college employ, in making the first flower beds. ’The first gardener, appointed in 1882, was Mr. Charles Bates. A small plant house destroyed by the fire of 1896 was the gift of Miss Emma E. Dickinson, graduate of 1867. The present range of houses was the result of the generosity of several individuals, the largest and completing gift being from Mr. and Mrs. James Taleott, of New York City, for whom the arboretum is named. Laboratory work with the compound microscope began in 1883, and Miss Martha Goldthwait,who worked with mosses, was the first pupil in what was then called “advanced work.”

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THE LLAMARADA 21 Elizabeth Rebecca Laird, Ph.I)., Professor B.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr; L niversity of Berlin; Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae, of the American Physical Society, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. South Hadley, Massachusetts Mabel Augusta Chase, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., Oberlin; M.A., Cornell University; University of Chicago; Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. South Had!ey,Massachusetts Violet Louise Holcomb, M.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Colorado College; M.A., Radcliffe; Phi Beta Kappa. 43 Ashley Avenue, W est Springfield, Massachusetts Margaret Calderwood Shields, B.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. Saint (ohnsbury, Vermont Department of .cUtrononm A course in astronomy was included in the required work of the seminary from the beginning in 1837, hut soon after the granting of the college charter all courses were made elective. The first telescope, six inches in aperture, was purchased in 1853 with money collected by Mr. Dickinson, of Durham, Connecticut. The small observatory which sheltered it stood upon the campus, a little to the north of the monument. In 1881 this telescope was sent to the Huguenot Seminary of South Africa, and the John Payson W illiston Observatory, the gift of Mr. A. L. Williston, was completed. Its principal instruments are an eight-inch Clark telescope, mounted equatorially, and a three-inch meridian circle. In 1902 a lecture room was added to this building, and facilities for elementary observational work were greatly increased. Miss Bardwell, the first director of the observatory, began her work here in 1866. After her death, in 1899, she was succeeded by Miss Young. Since 1902 there has also been an assistant in the department. Upon the first Wednesday evening of each month the observatory is open to visitors, and residents of neighboring towns, as well as students of the college and their friends, are given an opportunity to see objects of interest with the telescope.

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THE LLAMA RADA 23 Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker, Ph.D., Professor Mount Holyoke; Ph.D., Syracuse University; Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Berlin; Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, of the National Geographic Society, and of the Torrey Botanical Club. 2 Park Street, South Hadley, Massachusetts Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., M.A., Oberlin College; Chicago University; Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Forestry Association, and of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Asa S. Kinney, M.S., Director of the Botanical Gardens, and Instructor in Floriculture Boston University; M.S., Massachusetts Agricultural College. South Hadley. Massachusetts Marion Dodge Weston, B.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke West Newbury, Massachusetts Sarah J. Agard, M.A., Curator of Museum South Hadley, Massachusetts Departments of Soology and physiology 1 lit- philosophy of natural history held a place in the curriculum for thirty-five years, zoology being substituted in 1874. The first zoological laboratory was in W illiston Hall, built in 1876. The annex was added in 1889, and the accommodations for work in zoology seemed ample until 1905, when the laboratory work in physiology was included in the department. Since that time there has seemed a necessity for enlarged quarters for the department, and a new biological laboratory is looked for in the near future. Cornelia Maria Clapp, Ph.D., Professor Mount Holyoke; Ph.B., Syracuse University; Ph.D., University of Chicago; Phi Beta Kappa; Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood’s 1 loll; Naples Zoological Station; Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the Society of American Zoologists, and of the Association of American Anatomists. Montague, Massachusetts