Papers, 1937-1939.

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Papers, 1937-1939.

Correspondence, principally regarding the administration of the herbarium, and a list of botanical specimens collected in southeastern Washington and northern Idaho. Correspondents include: C.R. Ball, Lincoln Constance, C.L. Hitchcock, J.T. Howell, A.M. Johnson, F.M. Ownbey, and C.P. Smith.

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Johnson, Arthur Monrad, 1878-

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American Botanist. From the description of Papers, ca. 1915-ca. 1940. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852927 Biography Arthur Monrad Johnson (1878-1943) was Professor of Botany at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and director of the Campus Botanical Garden from 1927 until his death in 1943. Before that he held academic positions at the University of Minnesota, Harvard University, and t...

Hitchcock, C. Leo (Charles Leo), 1902-1986

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Smith, Charles Piper, 1877-

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Ownbey, Francis Marion, 1910-

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Botanist and geneticist, Washington State University. From the description of Papers, 1935-1974. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852968 A native of Missouri, Marion Ownbey was one of three twentieth century Ownbeys associated with plant taxonomy, the others being his brother Gerald Ownbey and his wife Ruth Peck Ownbey. His botanical education began at the University of Wyoming and its Rocky Mountain Herbarium and continued at Washington Univ...

Constance, Lincoln, 1909-2001

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Howell, John Thomas, 1903-1994

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Assembled with a contents page by John H. Thomas. From the description of Base camp botany : plant lists kept by Howell and Peter H. Raven from Sierra Club outings in the Sierra Nevada, California, 1940-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863184 ...

Ball, Carleton R. (Carleton Roy), 1873-1958

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Sharsmith, Carl, 1903-1994

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Curator, Ownbey Herbarium, Washington State University. From the description of Papers, 1937-1939. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853293 Carl Sharsmith (1903-1994) was Professor of Botany at San Jose State University from 1950 to 1973. Summers he worked as a naturalist in the Tuolumne Meadows area of Yosemite National Park (Calif.). In addition to guiding visitors, Sharsmith did basic research on the alpine meadows of the High Sierra, gathering thousand...