Cowles, Henry C. Collection circa 1860s-1985

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Cowles, Henry C. Collection circa 1860s-1985

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Henry Chandler Cowles, botanist, University of Chicago alumnus and faculty member in the Department of Botany, pioneered the study of ecology. This collection represents Henry C. Cowles's work in research and teaching; his family life, including the activities of his wife and daughter; the work of Cowles's students; and the genealogy of the Cowles family. Materials in this collection include diaries, biographical and genealogical material, lecture and field notes, publications, ecological surveys, correspondence, and photographs of the Cowles family and of botany field trips.

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University of Chicago. Department of Botany

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In 1894, University of Chicago President William Rainey Harper appointed John Merle Coulter (1851-1928) to lead the newly established Department of Botany. Coulter was a leading American botanist and a friend of Asa Gray (1810-1888), the famed Harvard botanist whose Manual of Botany and other texts dominated plant science in the United States. Coulter had founded the Botanical Gazette nearly twenty years earlier, and he brought the editorship of the professional journal with him to ...

Cowles, Henry Chandler, 1869-1939

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Cowles was a botanist at the University of Chicago and a pioneer in the study of ecology. Cowles extensively studied sand dunes of the Great Lakes. Through extensive field trips, Cowles and other Chicago ecologists produced a collection of more than 4500 photographs documenting natural environments between 1891-1936. From the description of Henry C. Cowles lantern slide collection. 1891-1936. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 317722439 Henry Chandler...