Now a little but about Ellen Dorothy Schultz Quillin. She was born on June 16, 1887, in #Michigan. She received an M.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 1918 & did postgraduate work at the University of Texas as an instructor in systematic botany. She helped established the #WitteMuseum in 1926, where she was director from 1926 to 1960.

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/quillin-ellen-dorothy-schulz

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The best part of my job in the #SpecialCollections is the rabbit holes I fall into. While looking through our #RareBook collection, I found a #Book on #Texas #WildFlowers by Ellen D. Schultz who was the director of the #WitteMuseum in #SanAntonio. And despite all if her accomplishments her publishers, the Laidlaw Brothers of #Chicago, only watered Ellen down to just her husband's wife.

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It’s always incredible to see #Quetzalcoatlus on display. It’s such an imposing creature especially when you see it next to people or any other modern terrestrial and avian species.
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