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Vestal Bog

Longitude/Latitude: 
45.5371, -84.6465
Address: 
US
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Site History: 

Letter from EG Voss: Vestal Bog was certainly named for Arthur Gibson Vestal (1888-1964)--not a vestal virgin. A biographical sketch of him, by Robert A. Evers, was published in Trans. Illinois Acad. Sci. 58: 77-81 (1965). It says nothing of the bog, ?but does mention that Vestal spent the summer of 1913 at Douglas Lake "doing quadrat studies for H. A. Gleason and correlating grasshoppers with plant communities." His work on the latter was published in a 40-page paper in Vol. 25 (1913) of Biological Bulletin. It might say something of the bog. In any event, my guess is that Gleason named the bog in 1913 in honor of A. G. Vestal. Vestal graduated from the U. of Illinois in 1911, where Gleason had been one of his professors.