Tag: biology
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Collection Spotlight: John N. Lowe Scrapbook
One of the many collections processed this summer by our Arrangement and Description Specialist Glenda Ward was a scrapbook created by John N. Lowe, the head of the Natural Sciences department at Northern from 1919 to 1938. His obituary called him “the most discussed member of Northern’s faculty. Students had very decided opinions about him.…
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Collection Spotlight: The Cambium Club Records
The Cambium Club was a student organization for Biology majors and minors at Northern. The name cambium “refers to the vital tissue in the stems of trees and shrubs which makes possible continued growth and development over a period of years” and was supposed to symbolize the students, who were the “cambium of the biological…
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Collection Spotlight: The Elizabeth Brown Beard Losey Papers
Elizabeth “Betty” Brown Beard Losey (1912-2005) was an ornithologist, a self-described “biological historian”, and the first female field biologist for the National Wildlife Service. As a young woman, her work was praised by Rachel Carson, but Betty Losey did not know until decades later. It was only in 2003 that she received a copy of…