"The idea of an out-of-door laboratory was conceived in response to the need, in the study of ecology, of bringing together the observations made in y carried out in a glass laboratory and observations made in the open. This required a laboratory with situations which would make available the plant associations of the surrounding territory and their transitions, and in which further studies could be made upon the plant members and the environmental factors. Such an out-of-door laboratory affords a place in which the results of the in-door laboratory can be checked, by experiment, against those prevailing under natural conditions. … President and the Board of Trustees of accepted this idea and granted to the Department of Botany,in 1920, the use of some four acres of land for this project. … It has since become popularly known to the students as the Dutchess County Ecological Laboratory."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Women academics from the United StatesEcologistsPeople from New HampshireBotanists from the United StatesSmith College alumni
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_A._Roberts
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Edith A. Roberts
(April 28, 1881 – March 7, 1977) was an American botanist, , and pioneer of . She was elected in 1925 a Fellow of the .
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Edith A. Roberts →
Related Quotes
"1. The region is a mountain range of . 2. The of the region is of the beech-maple-hemlock type. 3. The successions ma…"
"1. The initial formation of the is indicated by a general swelling of the outer wall of the . 2. The swelling is prod…"
"The students, working with a biology professor, Meg Ronsheim, were resurrecting a that was cultivated by botany profe…"
"The word “ecology” may seem to have rather suddenly intruded upon the world’s consciousness circa 1970, but at , Edit…"
"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"
"As our race has advanced in civilization, owing its progress to a more and more rigid division of labor, with the att…"
"The development of any department of science is closely connected with its power of interesting men."
"In the long run, extinctions of species are as inevitable as the deaths of individual animals, and it may be that the…"
"From the time the European invaders of North America established themselves and began keeping records, the bitter win…"
"There’s a part of me in every I write, whether it’s male or female, because everything has to go through me. Everythi…"