George James Peirce papers, 1905-1926.

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George James Peirce papers, 1905-1926.

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Peirce's papers are primarily incoming and outgoing correspondence pertaining to his professional interests (research, publications, teaching positions) and his administrative duties at Stanford. Correspondents include D. T. MacDougal, William Austin Cannon, Charles R. Barnes, John M. Coulter, William F. Ganong, and Raymond H. Pond. Also of note is correspondence with the Forest Service regarding Peirce's study of the effects from smelter fumes, 1910; and correspondence with Wesley H. Beach, Lyman V. W. Brown, and A. W. Maltby pertaining to various legal cases regarding plant damage from cement dust. His Stanford correspondence includes letters from David Starr Jordan; letters from Le Roy Abrams, with a report on the Dudley Herbarium; and Peirce's letters to J. C. Branner (1910-1915) discussing theft of departmental microscopes, with reports on the work of the botany department.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Cannon, William Austin

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While Cannon was in the botany department at Columbia for much of his career, at the time this was written he was a lecturer in botany at Stanford. From the description of The flowers of the Riviera in industry, and the environment : corrected typescript with original photographs, ca. 1928-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863272 ...

Beach, Wesley H.

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Abrams, Le Roy, 1874-1956

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Professor of biology (botany) at Stanford (1900-1904, 1906-1940; emeritus 1940-1956). From the description of Leroy Abrams papers, 1863-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702912830 Biographical/Historical Sketch Professor of biology (botany) at Stanford (1900-1904, 1906-1940; emeritus 1940-1956). From the guide to the Leroy Abrams papers, 1863-1939, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives)...

MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958

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Daniel Trembly MacDougal (1865-1958) was the leading American authority on desert ecology and one of the earliest botanists to research chlorophyll. He was the inventor of the MacDougall dendrograph, used to record changes in the volume of tree trunks. He began his association with the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in 1899 as Director of the Laboratories. In 1904 he was named as Assistant Director. In 1905 the Plant Desert Laboratory was established and MacDougal became its first director. Wh...

Stanford University. Dept. of Botany

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Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928

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Epithet: of the Department of Botany University of Chicago British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x00037f Botanist. A.B., Hanover College, 1870; A.M., 1873; Ph. D., Hanover College and Indiana University, 1882. Professor of natural sciences, Hanover College, 1874-1879. Professor of biology, Wabash College, 1879-1891. President and professor of Botany, Indiana University, 1891-1893. President, Lake Forest Unive...

Pond, Raymond Haines, 1875-

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Ganong, William Francis, 1864-1941

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Dudley Herbarium

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Peirce, George James, b. 1868.

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Peirce earned his B.S. at Harvard in 1890 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig, 1894. He taught at Indiana University before coming to Stanford University in 1897 as assistant professor of botany. He was appointed professor in 1910 and served as executive head of the department from 1925 until his retirement in 1933. He was the author of three textbooks on plant physiology and coauthor with three other Stanford faculty of a textbook in general biology. He was active in the civic...

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

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Educator, author, and naturalist. From the description of Papers of David Starr Jordan, 1861-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068098 Zoologist David Starr Jordan was elected president of Indiana University in 1885. He left IU in 1891 to become Stanford University's first president. Jordan died in 1931. From the description of David Starr Jordan papers, 1874-1929, bulk 1895-1929. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 61225195 American ichthyolog...

Brown, Lyman Van Wickle.

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Barnes, Charles Reid, 1858-1910

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Charles Reid Barnes was born in Madison, Indiana on September 7, 1858. He graduated from Hanover College in 1877 and afterward studied at Harvard University. After teaching in the public schools for a few years he became a professor of Botany at Purdue University in 1882. In 1887 he left for the University of Wisconsin and spent eleven years there developing and maintaining a vigorous department of Botany. In 1898 he became a professor of plant physiology at the University of Chicago. Prof. Barn...