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  • Botany Bios: Katherine Merrill

    If you had attended KU in the 1800s, you probably would have taken a botany class as part of your course of study. (Those were the days!) In Botany, students were required to collect and identify plant specimens. We still have several dozen of these specimens in the McGregor Herbarium. Each…

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Botany Bios

Katherine Merrill as a young women wearing a white dress.

Botany Bio: Katherine Merrill

If you had attended KU in the 1800s, you probably would have taken a botany class as part of your course of study. (Those were the days!) In Botany, students were required to collect and identify plant specimens and we still have several dozen of these specimens in the McGregor Herbarium.
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