Henry Chandler Cowles


For other people named Henry Cowles, see Henry Cowles (disambiguation).

























Henry Chandler Cowles
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Born
(1869-02-27)February 27, 1869

Kensington, Connecticut, United States

DiedSeptember 12, 1939(1939-09-12) (aged 70)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Oberlin College
Known forEcological succession
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Waller[1]
ChildrenHarriet[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Thesis
The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan (1898)
Doctoral advisorJohn Merle Coulter
Doctoral students
Victor Ernest Shelford
William Skinner Cooper
Paul Sears



Henry C. Cowles in the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, 1913


Henry Chandler Cowles (February 27, 1869 – September 12, 1939) was an American botanist and ecological pioneer (see History of ecology). A professor at the University of Chicago,[2] he studied ecological succession in the Indiana Dunes of Northwest Indiana.[3][4] This led to efforts to preserve the Indiana Dunes.[3][5] One of Cowles' students, O. D. Frank continued his research.[6]




Contents





  • 1 Life and work


  • 2 Legacy


  • 3 Works


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links




Life and work


Born in Kensington, Connecticut, Cowles attended Oberlin College in Ohio. He studied at the University of Chicago with the plant taxonomist John M. Coulter and the geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin as main teachers. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1898 for his study of vegetation succession on the Lake Michigan sand dunes. The inspiration to these studies came from reading Plantesamfund by the Danish botanist and pioneer ecologist Eugen Warming.[7][8] The translation of Warming's term into English as "Oecology" led to Cowles becoming one of the primary popularizers of the term ecology in the United States. Cowles studied Danish to be able to read the original[9] and later (1905) visited Warming in Copenhagen. Cowles was one of the founding members of the Ecological Society of America.[10]


Cowles married Elizabeth Waller in 1900, and their daughter Harriet was born in 1912.[1]



Legacy


One of Cowles's field study locations is now named Cowles Bog in his honor; Cowles Bog and nearby dune locations were later preserved for the public as part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Cowles Bog is located off Shore Drive in Dune Acres, Indiana.


Among Cowles's students who advanced American ecology were Victor E. Shelford, William Skinner Cooper, Paul B. Sears, George Damon Fuller, Walter P. Cottam, Arthur G. Vestal and May Theilgaard Watts.[11] Cowles also served as a special field assistant of the United States Geological Survey.



Works


His publications include:



  • Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan (1899)


  • Text-Book of Botany, Volume II: Ecology (1910) (with John Merle Coulter (Volume I, Part I: Morphology) and Charles Reid Barnes (Volume I, Part II: Physiology)[12]


  • Plant Societies of Chicago and Vicinity (1901)

The standard author abbreviation Cowles is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[13]


See also


  • Frederic Clements


References




  1. ^ abc "Guide to the Henry C. Cowles Collectioncirca 1860s-1985". University of Chicago Library. Retrieved June 11, 2015..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ^ "Ecology and the American Environment". Library of Congress. Retrieved 25 June 2014.


  3. ^ ab Smith, S. & Mark, S. (2009). The Historical Roots of the Nature Conservancy in the Northwest Indiana/Chicagoland Region: From Science to Preservation Archived 2016-01-01 at the Wayback Machine.. The South Shore Journal, 3.


  4. ^ Schons, Mary. "Henry Chandler Cowles". National Geographic. Retrieved 25 June 2014.


  5. ^ Smith, S. & Mark, S. (2006). Alice Gray, Dorothy Buell, and Naomi Svihla: Preservationists of Ogden Dunes Archived 2012-09-13 at the Wayback Machine.. The South Shore Journal, 1.


  6. ^ Smith, S. & Mark, S. (2007). The cultural impact of a museum in a small community: The Hour Glass of Ogden Dunes Archived 2012-11-30 at the Wayback Machine.. The South Shore Journal, 2.


  7. ^ A Letter from Henry A. Gleason, written 1952, printed in Brittonia 39: 2 (1987), pp. 205-209.


  8. ^ Prytz, S. (1984) Warming – botaniker og rejsende. Lynge, Bogan; p. 127 quotes a letter from Cowles to Warming: "The reading of it (i.e. Plantesamfund) in the summer of 1896 turned the current of my life, which is now devoted to ecology".


  9. ^ Cassidy, V.M. (2007) Henry Chandler Cowles – pioneer ecologist Archived 2007-06-30 at the Wayback Machine.. Kedzie Sigel Press, Chicago.


  10. ^ ESA history


  11. ^ Sprugel DG (1980) A 'pedagogical genealogy' of American plant ecologists. Bulletin ESA 64: 197-200


  12. ^ Ganong, W. F. (July 1912). "Reviewed Work: A Textbook of Botany. by Coulter, Barnes, Cowles". Botanical Gazette. 54 (1): 73–75. JSTOR 2468394.


  13. ^ IPNI.  Cowles.



External links


  • Henry C. Cowles, University of Chicago.








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