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Historical review — Page 3

1926 photo identification

Ecology photograph, IV International Botanical Congress, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. August 18, 1926 According to the records of Bob Burgess, the photograph includes 16 charter members of the Ecological Society of America (Bray, Cooper, Cowles, Dana, Fuller, Gates, Gleason, Korstian, Moore, Nichols, Shantz, Snow, Starr, Taylor, Toumey, and Zon), shown in bold in the list below. N.B. This is…

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The 1917 Directory

Information on the first two cohorts of ESA members (284 Charter Members plus 23 members elected at the December 1916 meeting) was published in the ESA Bulletin 1(3) in early 1917. This “Handbook” offers a fascinating glimpse of information abstracted from information provided by the members themselves in response to eight questions. View the Handbook. On what ecological topics have you published…

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Standing group photo of Ecologists. Black and white.

1914: The beginning

What do you think of such a thing as a society of ecologists to include both botanists and zoologists and to be a society for field work rather than a society for the reading of papers? —Letter from Robert H. Wolcott to Victor E. Shelford, March 27, 1914 The first discussions on the formation of the Society took place in…

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