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Botany and botanists.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Robert C. Spangler (1892-1974) Papers

 Collection
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

 Collection
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