Richard W. Lighty collection of Roland Harper writings, 1900-1966.

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Richard W. Lighty collection of Roland Harper writings, 1900-1966.

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Some correspondence of Harper with Clermont Lee; George K. Small correspondence with Marie Mellinger; bibiliography of Harper's published writings, 1899-1954, by Jack McCormick; photographs of Harper in youth and old age; original copy of his On a Collection of Plants Made in Georgia in the Summer of 1900 (1901); a disk containing scannings of all the papers.

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Georgia Southern University

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Georgia Southern University

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Lighty, Richard W.

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Mellinger, Marie B.

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Lee, Clermont.

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Small, George

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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 ...