Bohumil Shimek
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bohumil Shimek was an American naturalist, conservationist, and a professor at the University of Iowa. The Shimek State Forest in Iowa is named after him. Life Family and early life Shimek was born on a farm near Shueyville, Iowa to Czech parents, Maria Theresa and Francis Joseph Shimek, who came to the United States to escape religious and political persecution under the Austrian Empire. In 1866, the family moved to Iowa City to have access to medical care for his mother, who was suffering from tuberculosis. However, she succumbed to the disease soon afterwards. Shimek's father worked as a cobbler. In 1878, Francis Shimek became paralyzed and later died in 1880.
Bohumil Shimek's Published Works
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Published Works
- Aftonian sands and gravels in western Iowa (36)
- Land Snails as Indicators of Ecological Conditions (1930) (26)
- Geology of Harrison and Monona Counties (17)
- Notes on Aquatic Plants from Northern Iowa (7)
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PLEISTOCENE MOLLUSKS. (1913) (6)
- The Prairie of the Mississippi River Bluffs (6)
- AFTONIAN SANDS AND GRAVEL IN WESTERN IOWA. (1908) (5)
- The Genesis of Loess a Problem in Plant Ecology (1910) (3)
- The Plants of Winneshiek County (3)
- The effect of pollution on mollusks in Iowa (1935) (3)
- Evidence that the fossiliferous gravel and sand beds of Iowa and Nebraska are Aftonian (2)
- THE PLEISTOCENE OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. (1910) (2)
- The Distribution of Loess Fossils (1899) (2)
- Nebraska “loess man” (2)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, 1933 (1933) (2)
- Pleistocene and recent mollusks (2)
- Drainage in Iowa (1)
- Pleistocene of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and vicinity (1)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, 1935 (I) (1935) (1)
- Additional Note on Helicina Occulta (1905) (1)
- Wood Preservation (1927) (1)
- Building inspection trip, Iowa; field notes, Illinois, Indiana, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921 (1)
- Thomas Huston Macbride (1934) (1)
- THE PRAIRIES AGAIN. (1928) (1)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, April-June, 1920 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (42) (0)
- Photographs, Cerro Gorda county (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (IV) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (49) (0)
- Photographs, Southern trip, 1936 (6) (1936) (0)
- Notes on botany specimens, Nebraska, 1890 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (33) (0)
- The Switzerland of Iowa (1935) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, August-September 1906 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, November-December 1906 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (14) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, quotations on geology from various sources, January-February 1921 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, August-September 1921 (0)
- Field notes, Iowa, 1899 (0)
- Field notes, Nebraska, March 1907 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (30) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Illinois, October-November 1906 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, March-July 1923 (0)
- Photographs, Southern trip, 1936 (9) (1936) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Missouri, 1920, 1921 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Indiana, Illinois, April 1906; and Iowa, Nebraska, August-September 1926 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (64) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Audubon and Shelby counties, Iowa, 1912, 1913 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (p34) (0)
- Photographs, Southern Trip, 1936 (12) (1936) (0)
- [Photographs] Lansing, Kansas (0)
- Lists of specimens, Lake Okoboji, Iowa, 1901 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (59) (0)
- The Use of Common Names for Plants (0)
- Field notes and diary, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, 1935 (1935) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (26) (0)
- Diary, European trip, 1914 (2 of 2) (0)
- Field notes, Harrison County, Iowa, 1908 (B) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (46) (0)
- Comparative studies of loess and recent mollusks II (1936) (0)
- Accession 91-027 Bohumil Shimek Papers, 1882-1936 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (28) (0)
- The Coming Ecologist (1936) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (22) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, October 1904 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Atlantic Coastal states; notes on plants, 1885 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, 1934 ( II of II) (1934) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (53) (0)
- Photographs, geological formation, (34a) (0)
- Field notes and diary, New Mexico, August 1907 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (56) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (60) (0)
- Field notes, Osceola and Dickenson counties, Iowa; and other notes, 1900 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Natchez, Mississippi, 1898 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Bayfield, Wisconsin, March 1906 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (10) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (37) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (36) (0)
- Landscape photographs 2 (0)
- Notes on Ova, 1880 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Ohio, Kansas, 1916, 1918 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, 1912, 1913, 1920 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (51) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (5) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Mississippi, Arkansas, December 1906-January 1907 (0)
- In Memoriam: Thomas Huston Macbride; Henry Fredrick Wickham; Herbert Grant Campbell; Omar E. Lowman; Floyd August Nagler (1934) (0)
- Landscape photographs 1 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (39) (0)
- Photographs, Southern Trip, 1936 (11) (1936) (0)
- Photographs, Southern trip, 1936 (3) (1936) (0)
- Field notes, Harrison and Monona counties, Iowa, 1908 (E-1) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, May-June, 1920 (0)
- The Prairies Again (1928) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, 1903 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (11) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (38) (0)
- Photographs, Southern trip, 1936 (2) (1936) (0)
- Landscape photographs 3 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, 1918, 1919 (0)
- Field notes, Iowa, June-July 1905; and August 1906 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (21) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, 1913, 1915, 1920, 1922 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (32) (0)
- Botany and geology, Iowa, 1910, 1911 (0)
- Hybrid Oaks in Iowa (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, New Mexico, September 1904 (0)
- Holbrook's North American Herpetology. First Edition. (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (31) (0)
- Photographs - geological features (III) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, New York, 1919 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (25) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ontario, New York, Washington, DC, 1913, 1915 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (52) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (24) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (19) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (41) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (40) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (55) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (66) (0)
- The Mississippi River Bottomlands (0)
- Field notes, Iowa, 1917, 1919 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (50) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Granite, Iowa, and Kewaunee, Wisconsin, 1901 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (27) (0)
- Record Unit 7082 Bohumil Shimek Papers, 1878-1936 (0)
- Field notes, and lists of specimens (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, July-August 1907 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, South Dakota, 1911 (0)
- Diary, European trip, 1914 (1 of 2) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, 1916, 1917 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, December 1906 (0)
- [Photographs] Shelby, Iowa, and Council Bluffs, Iowa (0)
- Field notes and diary, New Mexico, Arizona, California, August-September 1905 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (62) (0)
- Field notes, Iowa, 1909 (F) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Indiana, November 1904 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (29) (0)
- Field notes, Osceola and Lyon counties, Iowa, 1899 (0)
- Diary, and miscellaneous notes, 1896 (0)
- Field notes, Iowa, April-May 1905 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (48b) (0)
- Field notes, lists of trees in Iowa (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, September-November 1921 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee, Missouri, 1917, 1919, 1920 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (47) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (miscellaneous) (0)
- Cultivated Trees, Lyon County (0)
- Photographs - Scenes of various places in Iowa and Louisiana (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (12) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, February-April 1936 (1936) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (48a) (0)
- Loess papers : the loess of Natchez, Miss : the loess and the Lansing man : the Lansing deposit not loess : loess and the Iowan drift : evidences (?) of water-deposition of loess (0)
- Field notes, Iowa, Nebraska, 1909 (G) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (43) (0)
- Botanical notes, Nicaragua, 1892-1893 (notebooks 4 of 6) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (58) (0)
- Field notes and diary, South Dakota, August 1906 (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (6) (0)
- Travel Diary II, Nicaragua, 1892 (0)
- Mingling of Pleistocene formations (0)
- Diary, Iowa, Illinois, 1934, 1935 (1934) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Nebraska, October 1936 (1936) (0)
- List of botanical specimens, 1902 (0)
- Field notes, Iowa, South Dakota, 1910 (#1) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (23) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (67) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (13) (0)
- List of botanical specimens, Iowa, 1903 (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, Nebraska, 1918 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (I) (0)
- Field Notes, Nicaragua, 1893 (0)
- Photographs, Southern trip, 1936 (4) (1936) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (61) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (9) (0)
- Photographs, Southern Trip, 1936 (13) (1936) (0)
- Notes, Atlantic Coastal states, 1885 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (63) (0)
- Landscape photos, Iowa Counties (0)
- [Photographs] New Harmony, Indiana (0)
- Comments on Mr. Baker's "Notes" (1930) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (57) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (45) (0)
- Aftonian Sands and Gravel in Western Iowa (1908) (0)
- Photographs, Southern trip, 1936 (10) (1936) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, 1913, 1914, 1915 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (20) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (35) (0)
- Field notes, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, 1910 (#2) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (8) (0)
- Photographs, Geological formations (7) (0)
- Quercus lyrata in Iowa (1922) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Lake Okoboji, Iowa, 1912 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (44) (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (65) (0)
- Shells, Alabama and Tennessee, notes on trees, 1891 (0)
- Photographs, geological formations (54) (0)
- Field notes and diary, Iowa, South Dakota, 1912, 1913 (0)
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