Dr. Willis Stanley Blatchley

Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Willis Stanley Blatchley, 1859-1940. Distinguished naturalist from Indiana, who from his home across the highway devoted twenty-seven winters, between 1913 and 1940, to the highly skillful exploration of the world of nature around Dunedin and elsewhere in southern Florida, writing some of his fascinating nature-study books and parts of his classic volumes on orders of insects. Erected by the Dunedin Historical Society 1976.

Marker is at the intersection of Bayshore Boulevard (U.S. 19) and Lee Street, on the right when traveling north on Bayshore Boulevard.

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