Bussey Institute
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. It was named for Benjamin Bussey, who, in 1835, endowed the establishment of an undergraduate school of agriculture and horticulture and donated land in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Jamaica Plain is a historic neighborhood of in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by Boston Puritans seeking farm land to the south, it was originally part of the city of Roxbury...
that became the Arnold Arboretum. Bussey, a silversmith, had bought the land from the Weld Family in 1806, and built a mansion in 1815. When he died, he left 300 acres (1.2 km²) to Harvard, and by 1871 the Bussey Institute had been built.http://www.jphs.org/sources/2005/4/10/a-guide-to-jamaica-plain.html. James Drummond Dole obtained a bachelor in agriculture at the Bussey Institute before moving to Hawaii and developing pineapple growing and canning industry there. Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, as well as producing the Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey...
, an American
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biologist
Biologist
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who became famous for his work on human sexuality
Human sexuality
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, studied at the Bussey Institute under famed entomologist William Morton Wheeler
William Morton Wheeler
William Morton Wheeler, Ph.D. was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard professor.-Early life:...
. Edward Murray East
Edward Murray East
Edward Murray East was an American plant geneticist, botanist and agronomist. He is known for his experiments that led to the development of hybrid corn. He worked at the Bussey Institute of Harvard University where he performed a key experiment showing the outcome of crosses between lines that...
, a pioneer in plant genetics, also worked there when he studied Mendelian inheritance.