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Clement Gray Bowers papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4098

Scope and content

Collection includes class notes; annotated volume of RHODODENDRONS AND AZALEAS, 1936; and plates for that volume; certificate of Pi Alpha Xi membership, 1923; and a Gold Medal Citation and tape recording from the American Rhododendron Society, 1963.

Scope and content

Includes correspndence (1944-1969) and biographical material.

Dates

1923-1972.

Creator

Bowers, Clement Gray, 1893-1973. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Dr. Bowers was a native of Maine, Broome County, New York. After graduating from Cornell University (Class of 1923, M.S. 1925), he obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia University while working as a research scientist at the New York City Botanical Gardens and the Hicksville Nurseries. He returned to Maine, New York in 1930 and became a specialist in plant breeding and hybridization. He became a research associate at Cornell University in 1947. He taught botany courses at Harper College and the State University of New York at Binghamton.