Voth, Paul D. Papers 1884-1989

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 ...

Olmsted, Charles Edward.

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Charles Edward Olmsted (1908-1976), a native of Colorado, was educated at University of Nebraska, University of Oklahoma, and Yale University. Olmsted came to the University of Chicago as a Coulter Fellow in Botany in 1933. He completed his Yale Ph.D. in 1936 with a dissertation on Connecticut sand plains. Olmsted's research and teaching on botany and ecology continued at the University of Chicago until his retirement. At University of Chicago, Olmsted's own research foc...

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...

Naval Arctic Research Laboratory

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Kraus, Ezra J.

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Voth, Paul D

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Paul Dirks Voth was a University of Chicago alumni (S.M. 1930, Ph.D. 1933) and faculty member of the Department of Botany. Born in Gotebo, Oklahoma, on June 12, 1905, Voth was raised in Mennonite communities. He graduated from Bethel College in 1929, and studied at the Rocky Mountain Biological Station in Crested Butte, Colorado, pursuing graduate study in botany at University of Chicago. Voth was known for his research on the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, working wit...

Chamberlain, Charles Joseph, 1863-

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