Henry S. Conard Papers

Biographical Note: Dr. Conard (1874-1971) received the B.S. and M.A. degrees from Haverford College and received a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1901.  He was member of the Department of Biology at Grinnell College from 1906 to 1944.  He was a botanist, a bryologist, and an authority on bryophytes (especially the mosses) and waterlilies.
 
Provenance: Professor Conard’s papers were donated to Grinnell College Archives in 1980 by his daughter, Rebecca Conard French. Later additions came from Biology Department at University of Northern Iowa, from the Science Building (via Ben Graham), and from Dr. Conard’s granddaughter Laura Bickers (via Jon Andelson).
 
Quantity: 4  archives boxes

Suggested citation: Henry S. Conard papers, Grinnell College Libraries, Department of Special Collections, Grinnell, Iowa. Ms.01.28.
 
Box Listing 

Box 1
Essays, sermons, addresses (ca. 55).  Some dated in 1930’s, most undated.
 
Manuscript (holograph and typescript) of unidentified work or works.  3 folders, various pagings.
 
Honors and awards presented to Professor Conard.  1906-56.
 
Box 2
Clippings about Professor Conard.  ca. 1940-65.  1 folder.
 
Correspondence between Dr. Conard and Professor Martin L. Grant, State Teachers College, Cedar Falls (now University of Northern Iowa) were donated by the Department of Biology, University of Northern Iowa, Oct. 1990.  ca. 7 letters, 1957-61.
 
Retirement: Letters to Professor Conard at the time of his retirement, spring 1944.
 
37 letters, most to Dr. Conard, 1904-54.  Transferred from Archives at University of Iowa, found there in an unrelated collection of papers from their Botany Dept. 10-94
 
Letters, one presumed from Dr. Conard (1969?), one from his granddaughter Laura Bickers (2000), donated by Jon Andelson.
 
Box 3
[Items are from the Science Building, deposited by Ben Graham Nov. 1995]
“Preliminary notes on a probable new species of Taenia from the common fowl,” Theses for A.M. degree, Haverford College, June 1895. (18 leaves).  Also a paper on the locomotion of a cestode embryo. (17 leaves).  Holograph in a notebook.
 
Plants of Iowa..  Corrections for the 1961 edition.
 
Vegetation of Iowa.  1965.  Typed manuscript with original photographs; maps.  Typescript.  Also typescript of a later version.
 
Box 4
A Check List of The Atracheata (Bryophyta) of Iowa.  Dec. 1943.  Booklets.
 
Letter from United States Department of Agriculture Scientific Assistant.  June 7, 1919.
 
Cooperrider, Tom S.  The Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Iowa.  V.XX N.1 Booklet with notes.
 
Desiderata for the Grinnell Local Herbarium.  Notes.
 
Herbarium Check List.  Plants of Central Iowa: Grinnell Flora.  3rd Edition.  Booklets.  2 copies.
 
Plants of Central Iowa: Grinnell Flora.  2nd Edition.  Booklets.  14 copies.
 
Plants of Central Iowa: Grinnell Flora.  5th Edition.  Booklets.  9 copies.
 
Reprints of Henry J. Conard’s work and miscellaneous.
 
[Biographical information and more clipping are in the College Archives, 52/pC74.  Consult the Iowa Room card catalog for his publications.]
 
Processed by Joseph Besharse.  5 July 2000.