Archival Adventures - Episode 49: Two small collections related to Botany
Channel: VTLibraries
Date: 2022-01-24

On this episode of Archival Adventures we explore two collections that were marked with the subject tag "Botany".

The first collection is the George Myron Shear Papers (Ms1988-006). Shear was a plant physiologist and a professor of plant physiology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He specialized in no-tillage farming techniques.

The second collection is the Stockton Mosby McMurran Scrapbook (Ms2019-042). McMurran was a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and later received a Master of Botany from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He worked as a plant pathologist for the United States Department of Agriculture.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:22:44 George Myron Shear Papers
01:56:18 Stockton Mosby McMurran Scrapbook