University of Wyoming. Dept. of Botany records, 1756-1970 (bulk 1892-1953)

University of Wyoming. Dept. of Botany.

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The Botany Department was created in 1887. Its most prominent collection of specimens, the Rocky Mountain Herbarium, was started in 1893. The Botany Department offered bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees, and encouraged students to study topics such as botany, mycology, zoology, agriculture, molecular biology, wildlife management, and general biology. Students majoring in botany or biology also had the option to minor in Enviroment and Natural Resources. Aven Nelson c...

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Wyoming State Board of Horticulture

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Nelson, Aven, 1859-1952

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Nelson (1859-1952), a noted botanist of the rocky mountain states, was a faculty member of the University of Wyoming from 1886-1942. Born in Iowa and attending schools in Missouri, he was hired as one of the first faculty members of the University of Wyoming. He was appointed professor of Biology as well as serving in several other capacities for the University, including Professor of Botany (1907-1930s), Curator of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium (1894-1942), which he developed through a specimen ...

Solheim, W. G. (Wilhelm Gerhard), 1898-1978

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Wilhelm Gerhard Solheim (1898-1978), was regarded as the foremost authority on the fungi of the Rocky Mountain region and his personal herbarium served as a reference collection for mycologists and plant pathologists. Solheim eventually gifted his personal collection to the University of Wyoming to create the Rocky Mountain Herbarium. Solheim received a M.A. degree in 1926 and Ph.D. degree in 1928 from the University of Illinois. He served as a professor, scientist and administrator at the Unive...

Rocky Mountain Herbarium

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Payson, Edwin Blake, 1893-1927

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