Bussey Institute

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Bussey Institute

The Bussey Institute (1883-1994) was a respected biological institute at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. 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, commonly known as JP, is an historic neighborhood of 4.4 sq. miles in Boston, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States....
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 to Harvard, and by 1871 the Bussey Institute had been built. Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Charles Kinsey , was an United States biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University , now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction....
, an American

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
biologist

Biologist

A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life.Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment....
who became famous for his work on human sexuality

Human sexuality

Human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Human sexuality has many aspects. Biology, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms....
, studied at the Bussey Institute under famed entomologist William Morton Wheeler

William Morton Wheeler

William Morton Wheeler, Ph.D. was an United States entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard professor....
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