John Nathaniel Couch papers, 1924-1985.

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John Nathaniel Couch papers, 1924-1985.

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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.

About 26000 items (28.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Botany.

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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. From the guide to the University of North Carolina Department of Botany Historical Collections, ., 1810-1930s, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

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Founded in 1902 by William W. Ashe and Franklin Sherman, the North Carolina Academy of Science's first president was William L. Poteat. The NCAS is now a three-tiered organization that includes Senior (faculty and graduate students), Collegiate (undergraduates), and Student (middle and high school students) academies. The Senior Academy provides awards for deserving students, plans the annual meeting, supports the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (JEMSS), and serves as the scien...

Couch, John Nathaniel, 1896-1986

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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. From the description of John Nathaniel Couch papers, 1924-1985. WorldCat record id: 25028291 John Nathaniel Couch was born 12 October 1896 in Prince Edward County, Va. His father, John Henry Couch, was a Baptist minister, and his mother, Sally Love Terry Couch, was a ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Olive, Lindsay S.

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Lindsay Shepherd Olive was born in Florence, S.C., in 1917. He received his Ph.D. in botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1942. He was on the faculty of the botany department at Columbia University, 1949-1968, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968-1982. Professor Olive was a distinguished mycologist whose research focused on the cytology, genetics, morphology, and taxonomy of fungi and mycetozoans. From the description of Lindsay S. Olive...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Zoology.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Biology.

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National Science Foundation (U.S.)

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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, ...