Walter Cottam slide collection 1960-1970s

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Walter Cottam slide collection 1960-1970s

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The Walter Cottam slide collection includes slides of many varieties of plants, trees, and flowers. There are also views of various locations in Utah and the West. Cottam was a Botany professor at the University of Utah from 193l-1962 and gave his name to the Cottam Gulch area of the lower campus.

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J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah Photograph Archives

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Cottam, Walter Pace, 1894-

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Walter P. Cottam received a Bachelor degree from BYU about 1917, a PhD at the University of Chicago in 1926, taught at BYU for several years, and then was a professor of botany at the University of Utah where he founded Red Butte Garden & Arboretum. From the description of Maeser Hill, ca. 1930. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 52792489 ...