(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…
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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…
Random Walk through the Herbarium
With 800,000 botanical and mycological specimens (give or take) in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) how do we decide what to catalog? Of course our…
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…
Richard Halsted Ward
(17 June 1837 – 28 October 1917) “We shall do poor work, indeed, if we do not make the microscope not only a source of pleasure to ourselves, but of…
Haru (Francia) Chisaki Hommersand
(28 April 1926 – 17 May 2022) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 5,000 macroalgae collected by Haru (Francia) Chisaki Hommersand. Our vascular collection…