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Wherry, Edgar Theodore

Subject ID: 14286

Last Name: Wherry
First Name: Edgar
Middle Names: Theodore
Birth Date: 10 September 1885
Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Date: 19 May 1982
Death Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gender: male
HI Archives Collection #: 325, 147, 131, 26, Oral History
Other Holdings: Academy of Nat. Science, Philadelphia; Hagley Museum; Pennsylvania State University Libraries (Wahl/WherryFogg papers).
Notes: Portrait in HI portrait collection. OH contains interview (one cassette w/ transcript) at Philadelphia, 1979. Coll #325, folder file, Box 11.

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Collection #26

Alternate Names

  • Wherry, Dr. E. T.
  • Wherry, Edgar
  • Wherry, Edgar T.
  • Wherry, Edgar Theodore
  • Wherry, E. T.

Specialties

Palaeobotany, Plant Collection, Plant Ecology, Pteridology, Soil Chemistry, Taxonomy