Three botanists: Bessey, Pammel, and Hayden

Authors

Duane Isely, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Lois Tiffany, Iowa State UniverstiyFollow

Document Type

General Interest Article

Abstract

Bessey was a multidirectioned innovator and evangelist of botanical education, conservation, and scientific agriculture. For example, he initiated the first undergraduate laboratory using microscopes for botany instruciton and he had no peer as a botany teacher in the latter part of the 19th century. His enthusiasm about the natural history of Iowa and surrounding states broadened the horizons of innumerable students and he was one of the founders of the Iowa Academy of Science. An organization man, Bessey quickly became president of any group with which he became affiliated, and eventually was both nationally and internationally known through his text book writing and publications on the classification of flowering plants, the latter being the progenitors of the schemes proposed in the middle 20^th century.

Publication Date

December 1992

Journal Title

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

99

Issue

4

First Page

78

Last Page

79

Copyright

© Copyright 1992 by the Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

EN

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Isely, Duane and Tiffany, Lois (1992) "Three botanists: Bessey, Pammel, and Hayden," Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS, 99(4), 78-79.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/jias/vol99/iss4/6