Elizabeth Findley Shores collection of Roland M. Harper works, 1906-1965 [manuscript]

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Elizabeth Findley Shores collection of Roland M. Harper works, 1906-1965 [manuscript]

Published articles & letters-to-the-editor, on botany, conservation, and social conditions, mainly in the southeastern United States, sometimes in typescript. Gift of Elizabeth Finldey Shores, August 2010, author of biography On Harper's Trail.

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Harper, Roland M. (Roland McMillan), 1878-1966

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Roland Harper was born in Farmington, Maine in 1878. He studied engineering at University of Georgia, 1894 – 1897, during which time he became interested in botany. He completed his PhD at Columbia University in 1905. He then began his career at the Alabama Geological Survey in 1905 as a botanist and geographer. He published over 500 papers, many on botany and also including some on more sociological topics such as “Significance of bachelors and spinsters” and “Corn bread, appendicitis, and the ...

Harper, Roland M., 1878-1966

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Shores, Elizabeth F.

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