The University of North Carolina Herbarium
(NCU) has catalogued less than half a dozen specimens collected
by Dr. Shimek. Given that plants of Iowa are not a high databasing
priority for the UNC Herbarium, it may be quite a while before
all his specimens in our collection are catalogued.
Georgia Millward has written a short biography
of Shimek, and posted Shimek's photographs
of Iowa.
For an appreciation of Shimek by G. W.
Martin, a mycologist, see Mycologia
29(3): 364-365.
The Iowa Academy of Science, for which
Shimek served as President 1904-1905, has posted the text a memorial
to him that was originally published in the Journal
of the Iowa Academy of Science 44: 31-33. Discus
shimekii, a land snail, was named in his honor, as was
Bohumil Shimek Elementary School (Iowa City, IA), Shimek
State Forest (Lee and Van Buren Counties in southeastern IA),
and the Bohumil Shimek Environmental
Educator Award (for outstanding efforts by a formal or non-formal
environmental educator).
Bohumil Shimek
(1861-1937)
Oil on Canvas by
Cloy Kent, 1969
©University Relations, University of Iowa.
This photograph may be used for non-commercial purposes providing
the holder of the copyright and University of Iowa Herbarium are
credited.
