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Prytz, S. (1984) Warming – botaniker og rejsende. Lynge, Bogan; p. 127 quotes a letter from Cowles to Warming: "The reading of it (i.e. Plantesamfund) in the summer of 1896 turned the current of my life, which is now devoted to
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of Northwest Indiana. This led to efforts to preserve the Indiana Dunes. One of Cowles' students, O. D. Frank continued his research.
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The Historical Roots of the Nature Conservancy in the Northwest Indiana/Chicagoland Region: From Science to Preservation
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Sprugel DG (1980) A 'pedagogical genealogy' of American plant ecologists. Bulletin ESA 64: 197-200
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A Letter from Henry A. Gleason, written 1952, printed in Brittonia 39: 2 (1987), pp. 205-209.
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Cowles married Elizabeth Waller in 1900, and their daughter Harriet was born in 1912.
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The cultural impact of a museum in a small community: The Hour Glass of Ogden Dunes
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Smith, S. & Mark, S. (2006). Alice Gray, Dorothy Buell, and Naomi Svihla:
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The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan
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and nearby dune locations were later preserved for the public as part of the
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Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan
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in the United States. Cowles was one of the founding members of the
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sand dunes. The inspiration to these studies came from reading
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Among Cowles's students who advanced American ecology were
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Presidents of the American Association of Geographers
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American botanist and ecological pioneer (1869–1939)
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Index

Henry C. Cowles

Kensington, Connecticut
Oberlin College
Ecological succession
Botany
University of Chicago
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
John Merle Coulter
Victor Ernest Shelford
William Skinner Cooper
Paul Sears

Santa Catalina Mountains
Arizona
American
botanist
ecological
University of Chicago
ecological succession
Indiana Dunes
Kensington
Connecticut
Oberlin College
Ohio
University of Chicago
John M. Coulter
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
PhD

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