Seville Flowers Papers (Ms 607)

University of Utah Marriott Library, Manuscripts Division

The Seville Flowers Papers (1931-1968) contains correspondence, mementoes, article reprints, memorial donations, news clippings, information on Native Americans (particularly Navajo myths and pteridophytes morphology), field notes of Bruce N. Smith and A. O. Garrett, papers, and note cards in journal form. Flowers (1900-1968) was a researcher, a writer, and a professor of botany at the University of Utah (1936-1968). He specialized in bryology and phycology, and was Vice President (1964-1965) and President (1966-1967) of the American Bryological Society. He was also State Chairman of the National Educational Association's Science Department (1934-1936) and President of the Utah Education Association (1935-1937). A register is available.