Botany -- West Virginia
Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Earl L. Core (1902-1984) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1730
Scope and Contents
Original Accession; 1756-1985; boxes 1-21 and two oversize folders
Records of Earl L. Core, botanist, writer, editor, historian, and West Virginia University professor and Biology Department Head. Includes the correspondence, collected research materials, and writings of Dr. Core. The earliest correspondence, 1951-1960, deals mostly with his role as a botanist and West Virginia University Botany Department chair, and includes letters both to and from Dr. Core. Later...
Dates:
1756-1985
Earl L. Core and P.D. Strausbaugh, Mock-up of Illustrations for "Flora of West Virginia"
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4009
Overview
Mock-up of illustrations for the book "Flora of West Virginia, Second Edition" by Earl L. Core and P.D. Strausbaugh. The mock-up shows a rough draft of what the illustrated pages of the book would look like when published. Mock-up is composed of black and white botanical illustrations on pieces of illustration board (11 in. x 16 in.). The mock-ups show the layout of text and illustrations with notes and corrections. Also contains mock-ups and other material regarding the book's cover...
Dates:
1970
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
Collection
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
Collection
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