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• catalog abstract "This volume consists of meeting minutes of the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History from 1805 to 1832. The minutes pertain to proposals discussed and voted upon regarding the Professorship, including the botanic garden established by the Board and provide insight into the types of issues discussed at Board meetings. The earliest meeting minutes (1805) outline the rules and regulations of the Professorship and of the Board of Visitors. The minutes reflect the Board's continued efforts to raise funds for the Professorship and botanic garden and include votes pertaining to the purchase and sale of land, the transfer and sale of stock, the receipt of stock dividends, the borrowing of funds, the sale of plants from the botanic garden, and the acceptance of financial assistance from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The minutes also focus on the administration of the botanic garden. The Board's votes document the purchase of the land for the botanic garden, the building of fences, greenhouses, and hot houses, the acquisition of plants, trees, seeds, and minerals, the cultivation of land, the hiring of garden workers, and the establishment of rules regulating the visits of Harvard University students to the garden. Additional votes refer to the reimbursement of William Dandridge Peck's monthly expenses for the botanic garden, the fixing of Peck's salary, the erection of Peck's house on garden property, and the appointment of Thomas Nuttall as curator of the botanic garden after Peck's death in 1822. Meeting minutes after 1822 illustrate the increasing difficulty of funding both the Professorship and botanic garden and document the transfer of the Board's financial resources and botanic garden to Harvard University.".
• catalog alternative "Formerly described as: Records of the Harvard Corporation. Professorship records: Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History.".
• catalog alternative "Harvard Corporation. Professorships Papers.".
• catalog contributor b2469985.
• catalog date "1805".
• catalog description "Additional materials on the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History are held in the Harvard University Archives. These include: 1) Rules of subscription to a fund for the establishment of a professorship of Natural History and a list of subscribers, 1805 March 27 (UAI 15.1073); 2) Records of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History in the Records of the Treasurer of Harvard University (UAI 50.x); 3) Papers of William Dandridge Peck, 1777-1827 (HUG 1677.xx); 4) United States Loan Office Debt Certificate transferred to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History by Josiah Quincy, 1806 October 14 (UAI 15.1074); 5) Board of Visitors report to the President and Fellows of Harvard College on the state of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, 1830 January 6 (UAI 15.1075); 6) Foundation of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, at Harvard College, in Cambridge. With documents, relative to its establishment, 1805 (UAI 15.1076); 7) Amendments to the rules and regulations of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, 1805 March 27 (UAI 15.1077); 8) Subscription records for the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, 1802-1813 (UAI 15.997); 9) Financial records of the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, 1805-1814 (UAI 15.1003); 10) Records relating to the scientific apparatus collection of the Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and the Records of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, 1765-1835 and undated (UAI 15.960).".
• catalog description "After Peck's death in October 1822, the Board was unable to financially support both the professorship and the botanic garden. Consequently, the Board decided to limit its support to the botanic garden and appointed Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) as its Curator. From 1834 to 1842, instruction in Natural History was given by the College Librarian Thaddeus W. Harris (1795-1856) and Augustus Addison Gould (1805-1866), the invertebrate zoologist. In May 1831, diminished funds caused the Board of Visitors to relinquish its control of the botanic garden to the Harvard Corporation; efforts to secure funding for the Natural History professorship were unsuccessful and the chair was left vacant. In 1862, the Corporation united the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History and the Fisher Professorship of Natural History (established in 1834) since both professorships served an similar purposes. The botanic garden, which had languished over the years as an instructional laboratory, was finally abandoned in 1948 when the Botanic Garden Apartments were erected on the grounds.".
• catalog description "Harvard University. Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History. Meeting minutes of the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, 1805-1832. UAI 15.999, Harvard University Archives.".
• catalog description "In March 1805, a group of prominent Massachusetts citizens endowed the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, along with a botanic garden, at Harvard University. This professorship promoted commerce, agriculture, medicine, and the arts through the study of zoology, botany, and mineralogy. A Board of Visitors was organized on April 19, 1805, to supervise the first (and only) Natural History professor, William Dandridge Peck (1763-1822). The Board consisted of the twelve trustees of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, the President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the President of Harvard College, and the President of the Massachusetts Medical Society. The Board of Visitors was given the authority to set the salary of the Natural History professor, to build the professor's house and any other buildings needed for the botanic garden, to supervise the maintenance and repair of the garden, supply the garden with all the necessary plants, seeds, and other specimens as needed; and to confirm that the duties of the professor were being properly discharged.".
• catalog description "The minutes reflect the Board's continued efforts to raise funds for the Professorship and botanic garden and include votes pertaining to the purchase and sale of land, the transfer and sale of stock, the receipt of stock dividends, the borrowing of funds, the sale of plants from the botanic garden, and the acceptance of financial assistance from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The minutes also focus on the administration of the botanic garden. The Board's votes document the purchase of the land for the botanic garden, the building of fences, greenhouses, and hot houses, the acquisition of plants, trees, seeds, and minerals, the cultivation of land, the hiring of garden workers, and the establishment of rules regulating the visits of Harvard University students to the garden. Additional votes refer to the reimbursement of William Dandridge Peck's monthly expenses for the botanic garden, the fixing of Peck's salary, the erection of Peck's house on garden property, and the appointment of Thomas Nuttall as curator of the botanic garden after Peck's death in 1822. Meeting minutes after 1822 illustrate the increasing difficulty of funding both the Professorship and botanic garden and document the transfer of the Board's financial resources and botanic garden to Harvard University.".
• catalog description "This volume consists of meeting minutes of the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History from 1805 to 1832. The minutes pertain to proposals discussed and voted upon regarding the Professorship, including the botanic garden established by the Board and provide insight into the types of issues discussed at Board meetings. The earliest meeting minutes (1805) outline the rules and regulations of the Professorship and of the Board of Visitors.".
• catalog extent ".18 cubic feet (1 volume)".
• catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. University records. hua".
• catalog issued "1805".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog spatial "Massachusetts Cambridge".
• catalog subject "Botany Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Entomology Research.".
• catalog subject "Entomology Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University Faculty.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University. Corporation.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University. Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History.".
• catalog subject "Mineralogy Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Natural History Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Zoology Study and teaching (Higher) Massachusetts Cambridge 19th century.".
• catalog title "Formerly described as: Records of the Harvard Corporation. Professorship records: Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History.".
• catalog title "Meeting minutes of the Board of Visitors of the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History, 1805-1832.".
• catalog type "Minutes. aat".
• catalog type "collection".