Edwin F. Atkins, who came here from Boston in 1866, had interested botanists from Harvard University in producing new varieties of sugar cane. It was the start of a major scientific undertaking, the Atkins Institution, and the Soledad Botanical Garden.
News this morning! Dr. Thomas Barbour, Director of the Atkins Institution, Dr. E.D. Merrill of Harvard University, and the great traveller and botanist David Fairchild have arrived there and are urging us to join them.
We were very warmly received at Harvard House, managed by the Boston university, as was the adjacent botanical garden.
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