(29 May 1842– 9 July 1914) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates both vascular plants and lichens collected by William Wirt Calkins. All six vascular…
Category: Herbarium Collectors
Mary Gwendolyn Burton Caldwell
(22 May 1917 – 18 June 2005) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 29 vascular plant specimens and 16 mycological specimens collected by Mary…
Earl Henry Hall
(3 September 1883 – 10 March 1967)1 Special thanks to Stacey Krim, Special Collections, University Archive, University of North Carolina at Greensboro for research Mr. Hall. The University of North…
Jacob Fredric Brenckle
(14 November 1875– 26 June 1958) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 153 fungi and 1 lichen collected by Jacob Frederick Brenckle, who usually…
Elizabeth Gregory Boomhour Kerr
(13 July 1912 – 15 December 2005) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium has found several dozen specimens of Pycnanthemum that were annotated by Elizabeth Boomhour…
Eugene Bourgeau
(1813 – 1877) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has to date catalogued a single botanical specimen collected by Eugene Bourgeau. The specimen, a fungus Pestalozzia…
Clifford R. Parks
(March 22, 1936 – July 18, 2020)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 50 specimens collected by Clifford R. Parks. Without doubt more…
Velma Dare Matthews
(3 August 1904 – 7 January 1958) Special thanks to Jonathan Garren, MLIS, MA, Outreach Librarian, Coker College for providing photographs for this post. The University of North Carolina at…
Richard Glenn Bowmer
(4 December 1931 – ?)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 65 vascular plant specimens collected by Richard Glenn Bowmer, who consistently signed herbarium…
Stephen Gaddy Boyce
(5 February 1924 – 24 October 2015)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates at least eight vascular plant specimens collected by Stephen Gaddy Boyce, who…