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This is a photograph of Fr. Keefe working with a microscope in one of St. Norbert's science labs.

Fr. Keefe was an avid botanist, and pressed thousands of plant specimens that he collected. These preserved specimens can still be found in the St. Norbert College Herbarium.

This is a photo of Anselm M. Keefe with his students in the botany lab of Boyle Hall.

This is a photo of Fr. Keefe interacting with what appears to be a student in the biology lab in Boyle Hall.

This is a photo of Fr. Keefe landscaping, maybe at St. Norbert College or in the De Pere area.

Part of being a botanist includes collecting and pressing plant specimens. This is a Mexican Purple Heart, Setcreasea purpurea, that Fr. Keefe collected.

This is a Purple Heart, Setcreasea purpurea, that Fr. Keefe collected and pressed.

This is another Purple Heart, Setcreasea purpurea, that Fr. Keefe collected and pressed. It's important to collect several specimens of the same species in order to have many different examples for research.

This is a sample of Summer Savory, Satureja hortensis, that Fr. Keefe collected and preserved.

This is an earlier sample of Summer Savory, Satureja hortensis, that Fr. Keefe collected from the SNC Science Hall Greenhouse and preserved.