Bussey Institution
| Bussey Institute | |
|---|---|
 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Jamaica Plain,Boston,Massachusetts |
| Address | 305 South St. |
| Named for | Benjamin Bussey |
| Opened | 1871 |
| Closed | 1936 |
| Affiliation | Harvard University |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Peabody & Stearns |
TheBussey Institute(1883–1936) was a respected biological institute atHarvard University.[1]It was named forBenjamin Bussey,who, in 1835, endowed the establishment of an undergraduate school of agriculture and horticulture and donated land inJamaica Plain,Massachusettsthat became theArnold Arboretum.Bussey, a silversmith, had bought the land from theWeld familyin 1806, and built a mansion in 1815. When he died, he left 300 acres (1.2 km2) to Harvard. By 1871 the Bussey Institute had been built to a design byPeabody & Stearns.[2][3]
Notable alumni
[edit]James Drummond Doleobtained a bachelor in agriculture at the Bussey Institute before moving to Hawaii and developing pineapple production and the canning industry there.[4]Alfred Kinsey,an American biologist who became famous for his work onhuman sexuality,studied at the Bussey Institute under famed entomologistWilliam Morton Wheeler.[5]Edward Murray East,a pioneer in plant genetics, also worked there when he studied Mendelian inheritance.[6]The geneticistWilliam E. Castleworked there from 1908 until it closed in 1936, first on the genetics of fruit flies and also on hooded rats, studying basic evolution.[7]
References
[edit]- ^Weir, John "Jack" A. (April 1994)."Harvard, Agriculture, and the Bussey Institution".Genetics.136(4): 1227–1231.PMC1205903.PMID8013900.
- ^"Peabody and Stearns: Schools".The Architecture of Peabody and Stearns.Retrieved12 February2021.
- ^"A Guide to Jamaica Plain".Jamaica Plain Historical Society. Archived fromthe originalon 2007-09-28.
- ^C. F. Dole,My Eighty Years,E.F. Dutton Co., 1927, pp. 273-274.
- ^Gathorne-Hardy, J:Kinsey - Sex the Measure of All Things,Indiana University Press, 1998
- ^East, E. M.(1916)."Studies on size inheritance in Nicotiana".Genetics.1(2): 164–176.PMC1193657.PMID17245854.
- ^Dunn, L. C. (1965).William Ernest Castle, 1867—1962: A Biographical Memoir(PDF).Washington, DC:National Academy of Sciences.
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