Thomas Robert Soderstrom Thomas Robert Soderstrom Thomas Robert Soderstrom (9 January 1936 Chicago – 1 September 1987) was an American agrostologist His special field of study was the grass family Gramineae or Poaceae. He was Curator of Grasses at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC for some twenty years. In 1957 Soderstrom graduated from the University of Illinois with a BSc in Biology, and enrolled at the graduate school at Yale University, earning a Master of Science in Biology the following year and a PhD in Botany 1961. He joined the National Museum in 1960 as assistant curator. He became
The Home; or, Family Cares and Family Joys The Home; or, Family Cares and Family Joys The Home; or, Family Cares and Family Joys () is a 1839 Swedish novel written by Fredrika Bremer. The first English edition, translated by Mary Howitt, was published at London, 1843; and a German edition ("Das Haus, oder Familiensorgen und Familienfreuden"), Leipzig, 1844. An alternative English edition, translated by E A Friedlaender, was published at London in 1849. In "The Home", Fredrika Bremer for the first time shows herself as the champion of the emancipation of women and their advancement. For years afterward, and especially after her return from a visit to