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1926 photo identification

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Ecology photograph, IV International Botanical Congress,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. August 18, 1926

According to the records of Bob Burgess, the photograph includes 16 charter members of the Ecological Society of America (Bray, Cooper, Cowles, Dana, Fuller, Gates, Gleason, Korstian, Moore, Nichols, Shantz, Snow, Starr, Taylor, Toumey, and Zon), shown in bold in the list below. N.B. This is a group of botanists, not specifically ESA members.

  1. Anna M. Starr, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA.
  2. Wladysaw Szafer, Botanical Institute, University of Krakow, Poland.
  3. Karel Domin, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
  4. Arthur G. Tansley, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
  5. Homer Leroy Shantz, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
  6. Eduard August Rubel, Technical University, Zurich, Switzerland.
  7. Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg, Botanical Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  8. Thomas William Woodhead, Technical College, Huddersfield, UK.
  9. Gustav Einar DuRietz, Plant Biological Institution, Upsala, Sweden.
  10. Greta DuRietz, PLant Biological Institution, Upsala, Sweden.
  11. Alexandre Borza, University of Cluj, Roumania.
  12. Henry Chandler Cowles, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  13. George Damon Fuller, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  14. William L. Bray, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
  15. Eleonora E. Segerstrom, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
  16. * Mrs. Karel Domin, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
  17. James William Toumey, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  18. Barrington Moore, Washington, D.C., USA.
  19. Harriet George [Barclay], University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  20. Frank Caleb Gates, Kansas Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
  21. John B. Egerton, Calvert Hall College, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  22. Charles Christian Plitt, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  23. John H. Ehlers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
  24. Lena Bondurant Henderson, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, USA.
  25. Aravilla M. Taylor, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, USA.
  26. Norman Taylor, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
  27. Adolph E. Waller, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
  28. Ethel M. Mygrant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  29. Helen J. Brown, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
  30. Henry Teuscher, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, USA.
  31. Marie McElreath, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  32. Mathilde H. Krenz, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
  33. Carol Y. Mason, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
  34. Laetitia Morris Snow, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.
  35. Mrs. Theodore MacFarlane (Nellie Malura Cross) Knappen, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA.
  36. Edgar Theodore Wherry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., USA.
  37. George Elwood Nichols, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  38. Henry Allan Gleason, New York Botanical Garden, New York, New York, USA.
  39. Elizabeth H. Cowles, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  40. * William Skinner Cooper, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  41. Meyer Halushka, John Marshall High School, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  42. Clarence Ferdinand Korstian, U.S. Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
  43. Arthur P. Kelley, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
  44. Herbert T. Vogt, Western State Normal College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
  45. * Alvar Palmgren, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.
  46. Rafael Zon, U.S. Forest Service, Washington, D.C., USA.
  47. Millard S. Markle, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, USA.
  48. Samuel T. Dana, Noortheastern Forest Experiment Station, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
  49. Charles Clemon Deam, State Forester, Bluffton, Indiana, USA.
  50. Selden Richard Warner, Sam Houston State Teachers College, Huntsville, Texas, USA.

* Not registered as Congress attendee.