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Trip to China Enlarges Arboretum's Collection Newspaper Clipping (3.106961)
Date: October 19 1990Type: Document
Description:A newspaper clipping covering a specimen gathering and exchange trip to China by The Morton Arboretum botanists.
Extent: 1 sheet
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer 1989 (3.107040)
Date: 1989Creator: Engle, Martha
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Summer 1989 Branches Newsletter contains articles on the following: a history of the soil at the Arboretum, specifically the movement of the glaciers and the ice sheet that covered the area; an update on the berms' their formation, purpose (to mitigate salt, exhaust and noise pollution), and design; and a sampling of collecting trips conducted by Arboretum staff and scientists. An in-service for volunteers, special events and classes are featured along with a list of new volunteers.
Extent: ;6 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1983 (3.113774)
Date: 1983Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1983 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as Bluegrass at Thornhill and a Bonsai Exhibit at Thornhill. It also includes behind the scenes gardening information and how volunteers fight tent caterpillars and mentions a problem with deer eating young plants. It also has a list of classes.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1984 (3.113775)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the Yuletide celebration and a lecture about "The Arboretum and Chicago's Architectural Heritage". The Arboretum also received a grant from the National Park Service of the United States Department of Interior to study the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1985 (3.113779)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1985 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as several mushroom-related activities, bird walks, and an upcoming field seminar to England discussing gardens and landscapes.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1985 (3.113780)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1985 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as welcoming Spring with classes like Arboretum Spring and The Nature of Spring. There are also several opportunities for birding. Field seminars were offered for Spring in the Southern Appalachians and Isle of Royale Adventure, and field trips were available to Braidwood, IL, Starved Rock State Park, Warren Woods, and Nelson Lake Marsh. The Atlantic Richfield Foundation Grant awarded $125,000 to support the project "City Trees For City People".
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1986 (3.113783)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a talk by Dr. Gary Watson, the Arboretum's root specialist, discussing the importance of roots and a look at a Victorian Christmas with Sunny O'Neil. Field trips included birding along Chicago's lakefront, a waterfowl fall migration in the Palos area, and a trip to the Indiana Dunes. Charles Lewis and Dr. Herbert Schroeder, Environmental Psychologist with the US Forest Service, were participating in an exchange research trip to The Netherlands to establish joint projects.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1986 (3.113786)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Winter 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a discussion on the "The Romance of Botanical Names" and "Resource Conservation in an Urban Environment". There was a field trip to watch bald eagles in Savanna, IL. Charles A. Lewis, the Arboretum's Collections Group Administrator, was honored with the G.B. Gunslogson Medal for "the creative use of home gardening in benefiting people-plant relationships and the future of American life" from the American Horticultural Society. The woody plant collections were to be computerized. A new maple, 'Marmo', was introduced. Members were also encourage to write Lt. Governor George Ryan to advocate for the development of a lake on the Danada Forrest Preserve as part of the Briarcliff Flood Control Program.
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1987 (3.113788)
Date: 1987Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1987 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the field seminar "Spring in Door County" and the lecture "Getting at the Root of Spring Planting". Linda Sanford joined the Education staff as Curator of Youth Education, and Dr. Gary Watson joined the Research Group as Plant Pathologist. Dr. Frank Pascoe and Mrs. Linda Meyers were hired as Administrator and Secretary, respectively. The Arboretum received grants from the Institute of Museum Services Conservation Project and the Rice Foundation.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1988 (3.113791)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the Chamber Concert Series and an examination of the work of Francois-Andre Michaux. Clarence Godshalk, Director Emeritus of The Morton Arboretum, passed away on April 20, 1988. Daniel Peterkin, Jr., Trustee of The Morton Arboretum and retired Chairman and President of Morton-Norwich Products Inc. died on May 11, 1988. The Library marked its 25th anniversary. Grants were received from the Nalco Foundation, Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Foundation, A. Montgomery Ward Foundation, and The Institute of Museum Services (IMS).
China trip, Arboretum group setting out to collect seeds in Shanxi Province (3.4533)
Date: 1990Type: Photographic image
Description: China trip, Arboretum group setting out to collect seeds in Shanxi Province, north-central China, standing in meadow
(L to R): Ross Clark, Peter van der Linden, George Ware, Kris Bachtell, William Hess
Extent: 1 photograph
1994/12/15: Fay [Wheatman] to Research Staff, Kris B.[Bachtell], Scott M. [Mehaffey], and Pete V. [Van Der Linden] (3.56322)
Date: December 15 1994Type: Document
Description:Memo from Fay [Wheatman] to members of The Morton Arboretum Research staff detailing notes take by Scott Mehaffey on the Collections/Research Workshop.
Extent: 2 sheets
1988/12/27: George Ware to Dr. Hall (3.63434)
Date: December 27 1988Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Memo from George Ware to Dr. Hall detailing plans for an Arboretum-sponsored plant collecting expedition to China and for Chinese dendrologists to visit and tour the United States.
Extent: 4 sheets
Undated: George Ware to Dr. Donnelly (3.65042)
Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:A series of documents providing a summary of the primary objectives, outcomes, and itineraries of The Morton Arboretum's China Exchange program which took place during the late summer and fall of 1990.
Extent: 17 sheets
1990/07/05: Zhang Hui to George Ware (3.66978)
Date: July 5 1990Creator: Hui, Zhang
Type: Document
Description:A packet of three documents sent by Zhang Hui of the Ecological Society of Shanxi Province to George Ware of the Morton Arboretum including a letter of invitation discussing itinerary and financial obligations of the parties involved, and official invitation for the American delegates from The Foreign Affairs Office in Shanxi, China and a list of the Chinese participants.
Extent: 4 sheets