Scope and Contents The Daryl Smith papers document a portion of Smith’s career at the University of Northern Iowa and date from about 1967 to 2015. The first part of the collection contains minutes, budgets, biology staff notes, and general administrative files from Smith’s tenure as head of the Department of Biology from 1981-1988.The collection also includes grant proposals and funding requests for the Tallgrass Prairie Center, a handful of conference files, and other planning documents. Also...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of material associated with Professor Eiler's teaching, research, and professional interests. The extensive material relating to Professor Eiler's work on Iowa vascular plants might prove useful to researchers interested in continuing that work. There is also a good body of correspondence, arranged chronologically, relating to Professor Eiler's responsibilities at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. There are good files of correspondence to and from his...

Scope and Contents Some of the papers in this collection accumulated gradually over the years in the University Archives. However, most of this collection came from the UNI Museum in 2010. This included: a journal kept by Professor Arey during a portion of his military service during the Civil War; a journal kept by Professor Arey during the 1893 Bahama expedition and publications relating to that expedition; and tributes to Professor Arey on his retirement from teaching in 1917. University Archivist Gerald...

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Both the scripts and the scrapbooks give a good picture of Professor Abbott's popular style of nature writing.

Scope and Contents In 1994, most of the Grant papers were transferred to the University of Northern Iowa Archives by the UNI Department of Biology, where they had apparently been housed since Martin Grant's death in 1968. Although the papers had been jumbled when they were packed into an assortment of shipping boxes, the outline of the original order of the papers was still apparent when they arrived in Special Collections. Several times in the 1980s and 1990s Dorothy Grant independently...

Scope and Contents The C.W. Lantz papers are undated but more than likely from Lantz's time at the Iowa State Teachers College (now the University of Northern Iowa). The majority of the collection consists of typed and handwritten publications, writings, and other notes created by Lantz, as well as a small handful of radio scripts for ISTC radio broadcasts.Examples of writings / publications include copies of Lantz's Ph.D. in Botany thesis, "Respiration in Corn with Special Reference to Catalse";...

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See descriptions in the inventory.