(22 September 1881 – 7 January 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has catalogued about fifty vascular plants and half a dozen fungi collected by…
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Albert Commons
(23 January 1829 – 11 July 1919) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has catalogued about 38 vascular plant specimens collected by Albert Commons. He usually…
Gerald McCarthy
(1 December 1858 – 8 September 1915) “We have among ourselves a class of scientific enthusiasts, worshippers of the mummy god Herbario, who with unwearied patience and tireless limb hound high-road and…
Francis Stuart Chapman
(4 June 1883 – 24 December 1956) The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 30 bryophytes and 6 lichens collected by Francis Stuart Chapman, who usually…
Augustin Gattinger
Augustin Gattinger (3 February 1825 – 18 July 1903) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged to date about 30 vascular plant specimens collected by…
Josiah Hale
Josiah Hale (1791? – 1856) Information compiled by Carol Ann McCormick (NCU). Special thanks to Paul G. St-Pierre, Research & Instruction Librarian, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University. The University of…
James Rex Baird
James Rex Baird (b. 22 September 1932) Photograph of Dr. James Rex Baird (on left) with Dr. Alan S. Weakley, Director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill…
Frederick William Anderson
Frederick William Anderson (22 June 1866 – 22 December 1891) The University of North Carolina Herbarium has catalogued about 60 specimens collected by Frederick William Anderson. All were collected between 1887…
Arthur Oliver Tucker, III
Arthur Oliver Tucker, III (22 June 1945 – 5 August 2019) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has only about a dozen specimens collected by A….
Lillian E. Arnold
Lillian Eleanore Arnold (1 September 1895 – May 1987) Lillian Eleanore Arnold was born on 1 September 1895 in Downingtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Her father, Burt G. Arnold, was a…