University of Minnesota Dept. of Botany papers, 1847-1982, 1989.

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University of Minnesota Dept. of Botany papers, 1847-1982, 1989.

Correspondence files of the University of Minnesota Department of Botany covering the years 1847-1989 but concentrated in the years 1921-1982. Includes administrative history of the department, development of its herbarium, and development of the University of Minnesota's botany curriculum.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Mexía, Ynés 1870-1938

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Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia (1870-1938) was born on May 24, 1870, in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. She lived in Texas, Philadelphia, and Mexico City before she moved to San Francisco in 1908. She was a social worker before she went to the University of California at the age of 51. There, she developed an enthusiasm for botany. In 1925, she began a series of trips to remote locations in South and Central America, and Alaska. She collected over 150,000 specimens, and more than 500 species of pla...

University of Minnesota. BioMedical Library.

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Tilden, Josephine E. (Josephine Elizabeth)

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Josephine Tilden was a member of the faculty from 1896 until her retirement as Professor Emeritus of Botany in 1937. She and Prof. Conway MacMillan were largely responsible for founding the Minnesota Seaside Station at Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island, B.C. From the description of Papers, 1927. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63286230 ...

Botanical Society of America. Committee on Education.

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Frenkel, Albert

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Forsythe, James H., 1885-1925.

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University of Minnesota. Medicinal Plant Garden.

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Stakman, E.C. (Elvin Charles), 1885-1979

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Plant pathologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Elvin Charles Stakman : oral history, 1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309738905 Elvin C. Stakman, B.A. (1906), M.A. (1910), Ph.D. (1913) University of Minnesota. Professor (1913-1953) and head of the Department of Plant Pathology (1940-1953), University of Minnesota. United States Department of Agriculture agent, head of the federal government's South American rubber expediti...

Butters, F. K. 1878-1945.

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Forsling, Clarence L., 1893-

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Ecological society of America

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Brown, Allan H.

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Florida Biological Association.

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Holway, Edward Willet Dorland, 1853-1923.

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Edward W.D. Holway taught in the Botany Dept. at the University of Minnesota from 1904 to 1923. Among his scientific contributions are collections of fungi and other plants which he collected from little known and inaccessible regions of the world. From the description of Diary, 1916. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63280183 ...

MacMillan, Conway, 1867-1929

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Ford, Guy Stanton, 1873-1962

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Historian; university president. From the description of Reminiscences of Guy Stanton Ford : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737315 Guy Stanton Ford was an historian, educator and president of the University of Minnesota. From the description of Guy Stanton Ford papers, 1885-1962. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63313982 Guy Stanton Ford was born on 9 May 1...

Erikson, Henry A. (Henry Anton), 1869-

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Erikson died in 1957. From the description of A history of the Department of Physics at the University of Minnesota, 1870-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78113868 Henry A. Erikson, B.E.E. (1896), Ph.D. (1908) University of Minnesota. Professor and chair of the department of physics at the University of Minnesota (1915-1938). Known for his research on the ionization of gases. Henry Anton Erikson was born on July 30, 1869 in Mount Morris, Wisconsin. He attended the Univer...

Mann, Frederick Maynard.

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Ownbey, Gerald B., 1916-

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Gerald Bruce Ownbey was born on October 10, 1916 in Kirksville, Missouri. He earned his B.A. in 1939 and M.A. in 1940 from the University of Wyoming; his Ph.D. was awarded in 1947 from Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri). Dr. Ownbey joined the faculty in the University of Minnesota's department of botany in 1947; he was promoted to full professor in 1956 and served as chair of the department (1960-1962). In 1947 he was named as curator of the herbarium and he held this position until he ...

Crex Carpet Company.

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Sandberg, John H.

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Harris, J. Arthur (James Arthur), 1880-1930

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Nielsen, Etlar Lester, 1905-

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Rosendahl, Carl Otto, 1875-1956

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Buell, Murray F. (Murray Fife), 1905-

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Wildflower Protective Society. Minnesota Chapter.

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Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota

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The Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey was created by a state legislative act approved March 1, 1872, and carrying an appropriation of $1,000 annually to carry out its work, which was to be done under the direction of the Board of Regents of the University. In July 1872, Newton H. Winchell was invited by President William W. Folwell to direct the survey, a post in which he continued for 28 years. During much of this time he also served the University’s Department of Geology, as inst...

Dahl, A. Orville

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University of Minnesota. Dept. of Botany.

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Freeman, Edward Monroe, 1875-1954

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Clements, Frederic E. (Frederic Edward), 1874-1945

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Frederic and Edith Clements were husband and wife botanists and pioneering ecologists. Frederic (1874-1945) was educated at the University of Nebraska, receiving his Ph. D. in 1898. He taught at Nebraska from 1894-1907, was head of the University of Minnesota Botany Department from 1907-1917, and was a research associate at the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1917 until his retirement in 1941. Edith (d. 1971) was the first female recipient of a Ph. D. at the University of Nebraska (1906)...

Holzinger, J. M. 1853-1929.

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Minnesota Botanical Society

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University of Minnesota. President's Lawn.

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University of Minnesota. Botany Building.

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Moyer, Lycurgus R. (Lycurgus Rose), 1848-1917

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Durand, Elias Judah, 1870-1923.

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Lakela, Olga

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Minnesota Seaside Station

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Gunthrop, Horace.

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Morita, Kako.

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Chesley, A. J. 1877-1955.

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Gortner, Ross Aiken

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Ross Aiken Gortner came to the University of Minnesota in 1914 as Associate Professor of Soil Chemistry but transferred to the Division of Biochemistry in 1917. He contributed more than 300 papers to scientific journals in addition to writing several books. While his first publications were in organic chemistry, he began publishing in biochemistry in 1908. Gortner was active in professional organizations, an enthusiastic academic advisor mentoring 130 Ph. D.s, and the recipient of various awards...

Abbe, Ernst C. (Ernst Cleveland), 1905-2000

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Ernst C. Abbe, B.S. (1928), M.S. (1930), Cornell University; M.A. (1931), Ph.D. (1934), Harvard University. Professor and dean of botany at the University of Minnesota (1934-1974). Expert in the fields of morphology, cytology, genetics, and phytogeography. From the description of Ernst C. Abbe papers, 1924-1996. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 693812465 Ernst C. Abbe, B.S. (1928), M.S. (1930), Cornell University; M.A. (1931), Ph.D. (1...

Oldenburg, Margaret E., 1892-1972.

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Margaret Oldenburg was born in Carlton, Minnesota in 1892. She received a B.A. from Vassar College, as well as a B.S. in Education from the University of Minnesota. She spent several years teaching in various high schools in Minnesota before earning a B.S. in Library Science from the University of Minnesota. Oldenburg served as a catalog librarian at Walter Library at the University of Minnesota from 1929-1939. She resigned in 1939 and moved to Grand Marais, Minnesota. She spent the following de...

Moyle, John B. (John Briggs), 1909-1977

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Surber, Thaddeus, 1871-1949

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Evans, Richard Irving, 1902-

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Jenks, Albert Ernest, 1869-1953

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Albert E. Jenks was a member of the University of Minnesota Anthropology Dept. form 1907 to 1938. From the description of Albert Ernest Jenks papers, 1927-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83090035 ...

Shinners, Lloyd Herbert, 1918-1971

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University of Minnesota. Lake Itasca Biological Station.

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University of Minnesota. Limnological Research Center

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University of Minnesota. Dept. of Botany. Herbarium.

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Sorokin, Helen Petrovna, b. 1894.

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Gorham, Eville

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University of Minnesota. Library

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Hidatsa Indian Agricultural Collection.

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Fink, Bruce, 1861-1927

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Tryon, Rolla Milton, 1916-

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Harvey, Rodney Beecher, 1890-

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University of Minnesota. College of Science, Literature, and the Arts

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The College of Science, Literature and the Arts (SLA) was established at the University of Minnesota in 1869 with nine faculty members. The college offered the vast majority of courses, including English, foreign languages, mathematics, geology, biology, literature, rhetoric, history and chemistry. The first dean of SLA was John F. Downey, who also served as professor of mathematics and astronomy. In 1914, John Black Johnston was appointed as dean of SLA. During Dean Johnston's 23 year tenure, t...

Treloar, Alan E. (Alan Edward), 1902-

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Jackson, Clarence Martin, 1875-1947

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Lawrence, Donald B. (Donald Buermann), 1911-1996

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Donald B. Lawrence was a faculty member in the Botany Department at the University of Minnesota. Lawrence's main area of research involved studies of vegetation development on new land surfaces following glacier recession, landslides, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Although he was a botanist, glacier related studies were his first love. Lawrence took over the Glacier Bay seedling plot study begun by William S. Cooper in 1916, and visited the plots every few years starting in 1941 and ending...

University of Minnesota. Greenhouse.

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Natural Areas Committee.

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Misz, Alice.

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Dean, Charles Earle 1898-

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Johnston, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1859-1936

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Clarence Johnston was born in Waseca County MN. After apprenticeship training in architecture in the St. Paul offices of A. Radcliffe and E.P. Bassford, Johnston studied architecture at MIT and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Johnston worked for Herter Brothers, and C.B. Atwood in New York City, where he also helped found the New York Sketch Club (later known as the Architectural League of New York). In 1883, Johnston opened an office in St. Paul, and had a partnership for a time...

University of Minnesota. College of Biological Sciences

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The Cedar Creek Forest was established in 1942 by the Minnesota Academy of Science and the University of Minnesota. The agreement establishing the Forest provided that "certain lands had been or would be transferred to the Regents of the University who would keep and preserve the land in natural condition as a refuge for indigenous plant and animal life, would administer the area to encourage wise use for scientific and educational purposes particularly for natural history studies...and would ke...

Grant, Martin L. (Martin Lawrence), 1907-1968

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Drouet, Francis, 1907-

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Burr, George O. 1896-1990.

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Young, Vernon A. (Vernon Alphus), 1894-1973

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Dudley, Margaret G.

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Gunstad, Borghild, 1906-

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University of Minnesota, Duluth

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University of Minnesota. Graduate School

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Graduate education has been offered at the University of Minnesota since 1875, cumulating in the first Master's Degree being awarded in 1882 to Robert Henry Crafts, and the first Ph.D. in 1888 to Charles Burke Elliott. In 1885, the graduate department was organized within the College of Science, Literature and the Arts and on December 12, 1905, the Board of Regents established the Graduate School as an autonomous unit at the University. The following faculty have served as dean of the Graduate S...

University of Minnesota. Golf Course.

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Moore, John Edward S.

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John Moore was born in Massachusetts and moved to Talladega, Alabama. Although he was educated as a doctor, he entered the mercantile business in Alabama. He lost all his property in 1855 and moved to Texas. From the description of John Moore papers, 1837-1866 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166155 Resident of Baltimore, Md. From the description of Letters, 1803-1843. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270789 From the descri...

Cooper, William Skinner, 1884-....

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Cooper was born on August 25, 1884 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Detroit public schools and graduated in 1906 from Alma College. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1911. In 1915 Cooper joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. Cooper made several scientific trips to Glacier Bay Alaska between 1916 and 1966. He is considered to be the father of Glacier Bay National Park. Cooper retired from the University of Minnesota in 1951 and moved to Boulder, Colorado...