James Heathman Horton

9 January 1931- 5 May 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged over 300 vascular plant specimens collected by James Heathman Horton. As we…

Arthur Oliver Tucker, III

…Tucker, Arthur O. and David E. Fairbrothers (1981) A euploid series in an F1 interspecific hybrid progeny of Mentha (Lamiaceae). Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 108(1): 51-53. Tucker, Arthur…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…Responses Along a Physiographic Gradient in North Carolina, The Professional Geographer, 68:2, 238-248, DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2015.1059404 Mitchell, Tyler J., Paul A. Knapp, and Jason T. Ortegren (2019) Tropical cyclone frequency inferred…

Dear Friends of the Herbarium,

…existed, herbaria have been valued centers for research. The UNC Herbarium’s employees, students, and formal associ- ates have published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in recent years, on subjects as…

Land Rich, Cash Poor

…estate. Hunt’s land donation of 103 acres along Morgan Creek in 1961, followed by Nancy and Edward Gray’s donation of 8 acres in 1961, and the UNC Trustees’ addition of…

Lisa Marie Giencke

…DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0038   SOURCES: 1. Weakley, Alan S. (2003) Lisa Giencke hired as first Mary McKee Felton Herbarium Intern. North Carolina Botanical Garden Newsletter, issue of September-October, 2003. 2. Cotterman,…

Kenneth Bryan Raper

…1931), and Howard D. (class of 1927) and John R. (class of 1933).1,2 Kenneth Raper entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1925 and earned an A….

Willard Webster Eggleston

…Alma Louise Carpenter (1869-1951) were married in her hometown of Foxboro, Massachusetts on October 22, 1912.3, 5, 8 In the 1930’s Eggleston donated his personal herbarium of ca. 10,000 specimens…