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Botany

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Botanical Seminar, Student Life Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-12-07-05
Scope and Contents

The records of the Sem. Bot. include a constitution, by-laws, examination questions and selected examples of membership exams, publications, and photographs. The histories detail the organizations creation and activities. With these items is a 1934 letter written by Roscoe Pound on the possibility of "nationalizing" the seminar.

Dates: 1886-1935 and undated

Botany Department, Arts and Sciences Records

 Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: R0236446024]
Identifier: RG-12-07-00

Charles E. Bessey, Botany Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-12-07-10
Abstract

College of Arts and Sciences

Dates: 1865-1915

Forestry Club, Botany Department Records

 Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: R0236445989]
Identifier: RG-12-07-07

Harry L. Weaver, Botany Papers

 Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: R0236437790]
Identifier: RG-12-07-11
Scope and Contents

The papers contain manuscripts copies of various papers written by Weaver along with correspondence relating to the papers and publication. Other materials include Weaver’s lecture notes and information on building Oldfather Hall, City Campus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dates: 1940-1971

J. E. Weaver, Botany Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG-12-07-13
Scope and Contents The Weaver Papers consist of original publications and reprints of articles written by Weaver. The majority of the publications focus on prairie grasses and grassland climates and include topics such as the composition, degeneration, and regeneration of prairie grasses, the effects of drought and cattle on grasslands, and the root development of midwestern grasses. The papers also contain several bibliographies of Weaver's work, biographical materials, and photographs of Weaver and selected...
Dates: 1917-1963

Raymond J. Pool, Botany Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-12-07-12
Scope and Contents The papers of Raymond J. Pool relate to his work as a botanist and professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and published materials by Pool, as well as botanical sketches and resource materials, class and field notes, and biographical items. Also included are photographs and negatives, lantern slides, and glass plate negatives. Some of the negatives are deteriorated due to their format. Of particular interest are the field notes...
Dates: 1884-1967

Robert Kaul, Botany Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG-12-07-18
Scope and Contents The papers consist of research on Per Axel Rydberg by Robert Kaul including a paper, maps for Rydberg's 1891 expedition, and text for Rydberg's 1891 expedition including original documents. The papers also include materials related to the Maximilian Journal Project, which Kaul provided the biological nomenclature for, a natural history scientific diary in German, and Charles Bessey’s transcript of his son’s handwritten letters to him from the Caucasus region. The original Erwin Bessey...
Dates: 1891, circa 1990s-2012

Thomas A. William, Botany Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0155
Scope and Contents

The papers consists primarily of drawings of the fungi Hygrophorus and also includes a brochure about lichens and an ASA Gray Bulletin about plants.

Dates: 1899

Walter B. Kiener, Botany Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-12-07-16
Scope and Contents The collection consists of Kiener’s personal and professional papers arranged into ten series and includes oversize materials. The series include Personal Effects, Correspondence, Kiener’s Writings, Research Files, Maps, Writings about Kiener, Newspapers, Negatives and Photographs, Postcards, and Articles and Reprints. Work on the Kiener papers included the incorporation of three smaller collections into a single collection. Kiener organized his research files alphabetically and this...
Dates: 1848-1959; Majority of material found in 1912-1959

W.W. Ray, Botany Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG-12-07-15
Scope and Contents Ray's papers consist of correspondence to and from Ray and his colleagues regarding publications and research, and copies of his thesis written at Northwestern University and of his thesis for Cornell University, which includes negatives of figures and illustrations. The papers contain biographical sketches of Ray's colleagues and other botanists, and several of these biographical sketches appear in the programs and proceedings of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. Also included are...
Dates: 1935-1967