In 1969, Grinnell acquired a 365-acre (1.48 km2) plot of cropland and established the Conard Environmental Research Area, in recognition of the legacy of the longtime professor.[3]
After a short time teaching science in Westtown, he entered the University of Pennsylvania as a Harrison Fellow in Biology in 1899, completing his Ph.D. in botany in 1901 and joining Sigma Xi. After receiving his doctorate, Conard taught botany at the university from 1901 to 1905. From 1905 to 1906, he was a Johnston Scholar at Johns Hopkins University.[2]
In 1906, Conard left Johns Hopkins to take a professorship in botany at Grinnell College. During his tenure at Grinnell, Professor Conard served as chair of the department of botany and, starting in 1935, as Chairman of the Faculty. He received emeritus faculty status in 1944. After his retirement, Professor Conard continued to be academically active, notably curating the bryophyte collections at the University of Iowa and running the Moss Clinic at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory.[5]
Conard's first wife, E. Letitia Moon Conard, was a sociologist and politician who died in 1946. He married Louisa Sargent in 1950, with whom he moved to Florida in 1955, where they resided until his death on October 7, 1971, in Haines City, Florida.[7][8] He had three children, Elizabeth Conard, Rebecca Conard and Alfred F. Conard.[7]Alfred Fletcher Conard (1911-2009) graduated from Grinnell College in 1932, while his father was still on the college faculty, and proceeded to join the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1954[9][10] and receive an honorary doctorate from Grinnell in 1971.[11]
How to Know the Mosses. Pictured-Keys for Determining Many of the North American Mosses and Liverworts, with Suggestions and Aids for Their Study. William C. Brown. 1944.[13]
How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts, 2nd edition with 55 added picture keys, 1956[14]
^"Review of The Water-Lilies, a Monograph of the Genus Nymphaea by Henry S. Conard". Botanical Gazette. 40 (4): 311. 1905. doi:10.1086/328681. ISSN0006-8071.
^Raup, H. M. (1946). "Review of How to Know the Mosses. Pictured-Keys for Determining Many of the North American Mosses and Liverworts, with Suggestions and Aids for Their Study by Henry S. Conard". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 21 (2): 186–187. doi:10.1086/395233. ISSN0033-5770.
^"Review of How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts by Henry S. Conard". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 33 (4): 274. 1958. doi:10.1086/402506. ISSN0033-5770.
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