University of North Carolina Department of Botany Historical Collections, 1810-1930s

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University of North Carolina Department of Botany Historical Collections, 1810-1930s

1810-1930s

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William Chambers Coker was hired as the first Professor of Botany at the University of North Carolina in 1902. Thereafter Botany became a separate department and remained so until 1982, when it merged with the Department of Zoology to form the Department of Biology. The collection includes papers of, by, and about botanists, assembled circa 1902-1953 by Professor William Chambers Coker (1872-1953) and others of the Botany Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Materials include correspondence and writings of Henry Williams Ravenel; letters from Asa Gray, Stephen T. Olney, Moses A. Curtis, and others; copies of botanical correspondence from various sources; biographical and bibliographical materials and some correspondence concerning 135 botanists, mainly 19th century Americans; and scrapbooks and portfolios containing Hannah Whitson's writings and pictures for popular presentation of botanical subjects in the 1930s.

3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2,400 items)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6629415

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

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Gray, Asa, 1810-1888

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Often called the “Father of American Botany,” Asa Gray was instrumental in establishing systematic botany as a field of study at Harvard University and, to some extent, in the United States. His relationships with European and North American botanists and collectors enabled him to serve as a central clearing house for the identification of plants from newly explored areas of North America. He also served as a link between American and European botanical sciences. Gray regularly reviewed new Euro...

Ravenel, Henry William, 1814-1887

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Born in 1814 in St. John's Parish, South Carolina; Educated in South Carolina private schools and South Carolina College, now the University of South Carolina; one of the few distinguished botanists of his time and received international acclaim for his research on non-flowering plants, Cryptogams. His earlier interest was Phaenogams, flowering plants. His collections were given to the Charleston Museum and Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C. From the description of Henry William ...

Whitson, Hannah.

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Coker, William Chambers, 1872-1953

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Botanist, of North Carolina; native of Hartsville, S.C. From the description of William Chambers Coker papers, 1897-1983. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 28411807 William Chambers Coker was a botanist, teacher, writer, who taught at the University of North Carolina, 1902-1945, serving as chair of the Department of Botany and editor of the journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. From the description of William Chambers Coker papers, ...

Curtis, M. A. (Moses Ashley), 1808-1872

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Moses Ashley Curtis was born in Stockbridge, Mass., and educated at Williams College in Massachusetts. After graduating, he became a tutor for the children of former Governor Edward Bishop Dudley in Wilmington, N.C., returning to Massachusetts in 1833 to study theology. He married Mary de Rosset in 1834, was ordained in 1835, and obtained a post to teach at the Episcopal school at Raleigh, N.C. He became rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Hillsborough, N.C., in 1841 and in charge of a ...

Olney, Stephen T. (Stephen Thayer), 1812-1878

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Olney was educated in Providence, R.I. and founded the Wauskuck Co., a woolens firm, with Jesse Metcalf. After attaining business success, Olney pursued botanical interests. He published a section on Carex in Sereno Watson's Botany (1871) and a list of Rhode Island algae (1871); and established a private herbarium and botanical library. From the description of Field notebooks of Stephen Thayer Olney, 1841-1870 (inclusive), 1841-1848 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 177498790 ...