Seville Flowers papers, 1931-1989

Seville Flowers (1900-1968) was a Professor of Botany at the University of Utah from 1936 until his death in 1968. He received undergraduate degrees from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1925-1926 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1931. Before joining the staff at the University of Utah he was a Fellow at the University of Chicago in 1931-1932 and taught biology at Carbon County High School between 1926-1930 and 1932-1936.

Flowers specialized in bryology and phycology and was Vice President (1964-1965) and President (1966-1967) of the American Bryological Society. After joining the University of Utah, Flowers served on a number of academic committees, including the Scholastic Standards Committee, the National Educational Association, Science Department, of which he was State Chairman (1934-1936), and the Utah Education Association, Biological Science Section, of which he was President from 1935-1937. Other professional societies to which Flowers belonged include the American Fern Society, the Phycological Society of America, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Sigma Xi, and the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.