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Romping through the records

Looking for a little ecoentertainment? We’ve been sharing little known facts about ESA’s eminent ecologists and presidents via our Twitter account, @ESAhistory! We’re also interested in Women in Ecology, especially during Women’s History Month. See links below. (Tweets have been edited slightly for web presentation; we also added dates to some for clarity.) Twitterati are welcome to join us @ESAhistory—we…

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Stanley I. Auerbach

Stanley I. Auerbach Born: Chicago, IL 5/21/1921, died 5/1/2004 Education: Illinois (B.S. 1941, M.S. 1947): Northwestern (Ph.D. 1949) Dissertation title: The centipedes of the Chicago area with special reference to their ecology (Ecol. Mon. 21:97-124) Adviser: Orlando Park (C) Comments: Victor E. Shelford was M. S. adviser. Teaching History: Roosevelt Univ. 1950-54; (Oak Ridge Nat’l. Laboratory 1954-?) Ph. D. Students;…

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Frank B. Golley

Frank B. Golley Born: Chicago, IL 9/24/1930; died 10/8/2006 Education: Purdue (B.S. 1952); Washington State (M.S. 1954); Michigan State (Ph.D. 1958) Dissertation title: Energy dynamics of a food chain of the old-field community (Ecol. Mon. 30:187-206) Adviser: Don W. Hayne (C) Comments: Also influenced by Alton A. Lindsey as undergraduate, H. Buechner and Rex Daubenmire as a Master’s student, and…

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Henry Allan Gleason

Henry A. Gleason Born: Dalton City, IL 1/2/1882; died 4/21/1975 Education: Illinois (B.S. 1901; M.A. 1904); Columbia (Ph.D. 1906) Dissertation title: A revision of the North American Vernonieae (Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden 4:144-245) Adviser: Nathaniel L. Britton (confirmed by B. Maguire) Comments: Influenced by Stephen A. Forbes and Thomas J. Burrill while studying and working in Illinois. For more…

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University of Chicago Library

Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 E. 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637-1504 Contact form See also Department of Botany records.

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