UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of University of Nebraska

... important contributions to science have been made by Vernon L. Kellogg, whose work has dealt principally with American insects, and whose recent book on that subject has been recognized as a standard authority; by Charles Edward Bessey, professor of botany at the University of Nebraska since 1884, a pupil of Dr. Asa Gray and the author of a number of valued books upon the subject which has been his life work; by George Frederick Barker, now emeritus professor of physics in the University ...

— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson