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Biology

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Earl A. Brooks Ornithological Notes

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0149
Overview Ornithological notes by Brooks, who was one of four brothers renowned for their studies in biology at WVU around the turn of the century, and after whom Brooks Hall is named. Earl Brooks, WVU Class of 1897, later went to seminary and became a Presbyterian minister before receiving an appointment as professor of Natural Sciences at Boston University. While a student at WVU he began compiling a study of birds of Upshur County. Later this compilation was expanded and published as A Check List...
Dates: 1890-1915
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John E. Reed, Plant Encyclopedic Scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4560
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 153 handmade scrapbooks in which John E. Reed gathered and pasted newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, pictures, definitions, and handwritten notes about different plants. These scrapbooks are alphabetized by the botanical/scientific names of each plant, and the collection also includes four index books for reference. It also includes copies of two pages of correspondence between John Reed and William H. Witte with background about the scrapbooks (Box 1).

Dates: circa 1910s-1950s
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center