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Robert Gordon Vosper at UCLA before coming to KU. He was called the "grand acquisitor" by Chancellor Frank Murphy.

Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick, professor of botany at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, left his wife a thirteen-room house and small bungalow filled to the rafters with books upon his death. When Robert Vosper heard of the sale, he and several…

Robert Vosper, with Chancellor Frank Murphy and John Nugent, examine rare books and lithograph stones from the Ralph Ellis collection on mammals and birds. Dr. E. Raymond Hall, director of the Museum of Natural History, was instrumental in bringing…

Close-up of Robert Gordon Vosper at UCLA before coming to KU. He was called the "grand acquisitor" by Chancellor Frank Murphy.

Robert Vosper at the 1982 re-dedication of the University of Kansas Watson Library