15/4/805 Guide to the Newsletter Newsletter

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Guide to the Newsletter 1939/1958 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Newsletter 1939, 1947-50, 1953-54, 1958 15/4/805 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Plant Biology 0.30 English University of Illinois Archives
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Historical Note:

Concerned with the classification and overall ecology of plants,1 this department had its origins in 1893 as the Department of Botany.2 However, courses in the discipline have been offered through: Department of Science, Literature, and the Arts (1868);3 Department of Natural History (1868-69);4 College of Natural History, School of Natural History (1870);5 College of Natural Science, School of Natural History (1871-1890);6 College of Science, School of Natural History (1891-1912);7 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1913-present).8

The Botany Department was consolidated in 1934 into a Division of Biological Sciences with the Departments of Bacteriology, Entomology, Physiology, and Zoology.9 In 1959, the Division was converted to a School of Life Sciences.10 The Botany Department changed its name to the Department of Plant Biology to "better reflect the mission of the Department in terms of teaching and research...."11

1. Undergraduate Course Catalog, 1972/74, p. 237.

2. Catalogs and Registers, 1893/4, p. 4.

3. Ibid., 1868, p. 6.

4. Ibid., 1868/69, p. 8.

5. Ibid., 1870/71, pp. 24, 33.

6. Ibid., 1871/72, p. 25.

7. Ibid., 1891/92. p. 103.

8. Board of Trustees Transactions, 27th Report, March 11, 1913, p. 200.

9. Ibid., 37th Report, January 26, 1934, p. 432.

10. Ibid., 50th Report., June 23, 1959, p. 435.

11. Ibid., 62nd Report, May 19, 1983, p. 230.

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Topical Term: Botany Department Newsletters
Administrative Information Accruals:

9/1963

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Copies of annual mimeographed Christmas newsletters containing reviews of staff activities in the herbarium and taxonomy, cytogenetics and genetics, paleobotany, plant physiology, morphology, ecology, mycology, virology and photosynthesis project; alumni news; lists of visitors, births, marriages, deaths; lists of appointments, promotions and graduate degrees granted and news of buildings, publications and staff travel.