John Nathaniel Couch Papers, 1924-1985

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John Nathaniel Couch Papers, 1924-1985

John Nathaniel Couch Papers, 1924-1985

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John Nathaniel Couch (1896-1986) was a mycologist, professor of botany at the University of North Carolina, winner of scientific and teaching awards, and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Correspondence, research materials, teaching materials, photographs, and other papers. Included are Couch's correspondence with William Chambers Coker, Lindsay Shepherd Olive, and others, about publications, conferences, his faculty appointment, the University of North Carolina Botany Department, Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Academy of Science, his opinions of National Science Foundation proposals, botany students from India and Pakistan, and other topics. Research materials include grant applications, articles, notes, drawings, and photographs relating to Couch's discovery and study of fungi of the genus Actinoplanes and his study of other fungi, including genera Coelomyces and Septobasidium. Other papers include Couch's files of teaching materials, his files on his participation in professional organizations, files on the controversy over merger of the Departments of Botany and Zoology into a Biology Department, and files on Botany Department business, including hiring practices relating to women.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection