Universly officials were unsure last night whether the government of Fidel Castro had seized a Harvard agricultural station and research laboratory located at Soledad, Cuba.

President Pusey told the CRIMSON that the University had received no official identification that its Garden and Research laboratory had been nationalized that he had been unable to determine the veracity of press reports of the .

One spokesman said that the Cuban superintendent of the station knew nothing the supposed seizure when contacted by phone yesterday. Charges by a Cuban spokesman that a station was abandoned by Americans have denied by Pusey. Although there currently no American at the station, a director Duncan Olement, is expected to return to Cuba shortly. He has been Cambridge for the past two weeks.

Serious Scientific Loss

Seisure of the land, Pusey said, would present a serious scientific loss. Although the land is not owned by Harvard a University operates experiments in special agriculture, horticulture, and botany there. Many of the experiments are of a long-range type which did not be easily replaced, he said. In condition, the station provides facilities of the study of marine plant life in Bay and of plant and animal of nearby mountains.

The Garden is near the city of on the southern coast of Cuba. It as less than 150 miles south-east of and about 270 air miles from .

The Garden, founded by Edwin F. in 1901, is staffed by 14 persons, in two men with Corporation appointment. The facilities are available biologists and graduate students in from the University and other .