Henry Shoemaker Conard

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name = Henry Shoemaker Conard


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birth_date = birth date|1874|9|12|mf=y
birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
death_date = death date and age|1971|10|7|1874|9|12
death_place = Haines City, Florida
residence = United States
nationality = American flagicon|United States
field = Botany, bryology
work_institution = Grinnell College
alma_mater = Haverford College (B.S. 1894, M.S. 1895) and University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1901)
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doctoral_students =
prizes = Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America (1954) [Ecological Society of America. [http://www.esa.org/history/awards.php "ESA History > Awards"] . Accessed April 29, 2008]
religion = Quaker
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Henry Shoemaker Conard was a leading authority on bryophytes and water lilies, as well as an early advocate of environmental preservation. From 1906 to 1955, Professor Conard worked at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. [Welch and LeBlanc 1972, p. 558] In 1969, the college acquired a convert|365|acre|km2|sing=on plot of cropland and established the Conard Environmental Research Area, honoring and continuing the legacy of the longtime professor. [Grinnell College, Department of Biology. [http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/biology/cera/about/history/ "CERA History"] . Accessed April 29, 2008.]

Henry S. Conard was born September 12, 1874 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Pennington Conard and Rebecca Savery Baldwin Conard. He attended Friends' Select School in Philadelphia from 1881 to 1888. He entered Westtown Friends' Boarding School in Westtown, Pennsylvania in 1889 and graduated as valedictorian in 1892. He then enrolled at Haverford College, where he earned a B.S. in 1895 and an M.A. in 1895. While at Haverford, he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. [Welch and LeBlanc 1972, p. 558]

After a short time teaching science in Westtown, he entered the University of Pennsylvania as a Harrison Fellow in Biology in 1899, completing his Ph.D. in 1901 and joining Sigma Xi. After receiving his doctorate, Dr. Conard taught botany at the university from 1901 to 1905. From 1905 to 1906, he was a Johnston Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. [Welch and LeBlanc 1972, p. 558]

In 1906, Dr. Conard left Johns Hopkins to take a professorship in botany at Grinnell College. During his tenure at Grinnell, Professor Conard served as chair of the department of botany and, starting in 1935, as Chairman of the Faculty. He received emeritus faculty status in 1944. After his retirement, Professor Conard continued to be academically active, notably curating the bryophyte collections at the University of Iowa and running the Moss Clinic at the [http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/lakesidelab/ Iowa Lakeside Laboratory] . [Welch and LeBlanc 1972, p. 559]

Dr. Conard and his wife moved in 1955 to Florida, where they resided until his death on October 7, 1971 in Haines City, Florida.

Selected Publications

* "The Waterlilies: A Monograph of the Genus "Nymphaea (1905), Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington.
* "The Structure and Life-history of Hay-scented Fern" (1908), Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington.
* "How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts" (1979), Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown

Notes

References

* Welch, Winona H. and Fabius LeBlanc. (1972). "Henry S. Conard". "The Bryologist", 75(4): 558-565. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3241210 JSTOR stable URL]
* [http://www.victoria-adventure.org/water_gardening/biographies/henry_conard.html Conard biography and text of "Nyphaeae, The Waterlilies"] . The site also includes a 1944 photo of Professor Conard.