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Charles E. Bessey: The Man Behind the Building

Primary Sources

Bejot, Paul, "Bessey: Scholar, Botanist, & Educator", The Daily Nebraskan, March 15, 1977.

Bessey, Charles E., Essentials of College Botany (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914), 1-6.

Bessey, Charles E., “How to Teach One’s Self Botany”, The Agassiz Association, March 16, 1904.

Bessey, Charles E., Revisions of Some Plant Phyla, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Studies, 1914), 37-46.

Bessey, Charles E., "The University of Nebraska", The Daily Nebraskan, October 28, 1901.

Bessey Portrait, Charles E. Bessey Records, box 42, folder 1, Department of Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Bessey in Office Photograph, Charles E. Bessey Records, box 42, folder 2, Department of Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Bessey Lab Photograph, Charles E. Bessey Records, box 42, folder 2, Department of Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska. 

Bessey Working Photograph, Charles E. Bessey Records, box 42, folder 2, Department of Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincon, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Book Cover, "Dean Charles E. Bessey", Charles E. Bessey Records, box 41, folder 3, Department of Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Logan-Peters, Kay, "UNL Historic Buildings Tour",http://historicbuildings.unl.edu/building.php?b=9, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Overfield, Richard A., Science With Practice: Charles E. Bessey and the Maturing of American Botany (Ames: Iowa State University Press Series in the History and Technology of Science, 1993), 101-175.

Pamphlet, "Bessey Faculty Positions", Charles E. Bessey Records, box 40, folder 8, Department of Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Pool, Raymond J., A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of Charles Edwin Bessey (Lincoln: American Journal of Botany, 1915), 505-510.

Pool, Raymond J., "Friends of Dean Bessey Join in Appreciation", The Daily Nebraskan, March 1, 1915.

Pool, Raymond J., “Professor Charles Edwin Bessey, Master Teacher”, Plant Science Bulletin, November 4, 1958.

Unknown Author, "Rickety, rackety old Bess past sixty and may get face lift if funds approved", The Daily Nebraskan, October 25, 1978.

Wolfe, H.K., ed. The Partial Bibliography of the Writings of Dr. Charles Edwin Bessey (Lincoln: The University Journal, 1908), 1-10.