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Instituto Cervantes (Spanish: [instiˈtuto θerˈβantes], the Cervantes Institute) is a worldwide nonprofit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. [2] It is named after Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the author of Don Quixote and perhaps the most important figure in the history of Spanish literature .
United States National Arboretum Herbarium United States National Arboretum: 800,000 NA District of Columbia: Washington: University of North Carolina Herbarium University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Botanical Garden. 750,000 NCU North Carolina: Chapel Hill: Oregon State University Herbarium Oregon State University: 700,000 OSC
Frederick Vernon Coville (March 23, 1867 – January 9, 1937) was an American botanist who participated in the Death Valley Expedition (1890-1891), was honorary curator of the United States National Herbarium (1893-1937), worked at then was Chief botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and was the first director of the United States National Arboretum.
The United States National Arboretum is an arboretum in northeast Washington, D.C., operated by the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. It was established in 1927 by an act of Congress [ 1 ] after a campaign by USDA Chief Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville .
Carver Langston is a cluster of two neighborhoods, Carver and Langston, just south of the United States National Arboretum in Northeast Washington, D.C. The two neighborhoods are most often referred to as one, because they are two small triangular neighborhoods that together form a square of land on the western bank of the Anacostia River.
[l] [20] In addition, Víctor García de la Concha, at the time the director of Instituto Cervantes, mentioned that it was the first time that the conference was being held fuera del ámbito de la comunidad iberoamericana de naciones. [m] While the King of Spain Felipe VI expressed his joy at "returning to the United States." [26]
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Ted attended the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained a Ph.D. with the thesis "Taxonomic studies in the Cruciferae of the Near East". [1] He worked at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University from 1956 until joining the United States National Arboretum in 1966 where he was a taxonomist and Curator of the herbarium.