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Botany and botanists.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

George H. Breiding, Naturalist, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4462
Scope and Contents Papers of George H. Breiding, 1917-2007, park naturalist for Oglebay Park in Wheeling and extension specialist for West Virginia University (1963-1978). Includes his writings from various publications and personal daily journals, ca. 1943-2007, with bird lists, the temperature, plants sighted, and more. The collection also includes various personal papers and records. Of particular note are his early journals pertaining to his time in the military, 1941-1943. Digital transcriptions of...
Dates: 1925-2020

Perry D. Strausbaugh (1886-1965) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1848
Scope and Contents Papers of P. D. Strausbaugh, former head of the Department of Botany, author of a biology textbook, and professor of Botany at WVU.Papers consist mainly of correspondence concerning the writing, compiling, editing, and revising a college biology text in cooperation with B. R. Weimar and Earl L. Core. Also included are letters concerning the investigation of plants for identification, the making of "Wild Flowers of the Alleghenies" and other moving pictures, and the signing of...
Dates: 1913-1964

Perry D. Strausbaugh (1886-1965) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1997
Scope and Contents Four boxes of correspondence from 1920-1948. The correspondence covers the period from the appointment of Strausbaugh in 1923, as Chairman of the Department of Botany at WVU (later the Department of Biology) to 1948. The correspondence from 1920-1923 is Dr. Strausbaugh's personal correspondence while on the staff of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Included are seven pages of typescript carbons containing comments on Elements of Biology by Strausbaugh and...
Dates: 1920-1948

Robert C. Spangler (1892-1974) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2346
Overview

Correspondence, research notes, photographs, and other papers of a former Professor of Biology at West Virginia University (1914-1955). Includes some materials relating to Spangler's theory of sex determination and his famous debate in 1922 with William Jennings Bryan regarding the theory of evolution. Bryan had offered a $100.00 prize to any professor who could reconcile evolution with the Bible and Spangler took up the challenge.

Dates: 1912-1964

West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Newsletters

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Collection Number: A&M 5206
Overview Newsletters of the West Virginia University Department of Biology (1957-1965, scattered issues 1995-2009). Newsletters contain information regarding the activities of Biology Department faculty, staff, students, and alumni; programs and events of the Biology Department; and biology, botany, and science related events and discoveries in the region. Includes issue of newsletter which was drafted but not published (1999). Also contains newsletters of the Phi Epsilson Phi national botany...
Dates: 1950-2009; Majority of material found within 1950-1966