Mordecai Elisha Hyams

…Society 117(4): 240-248.   ——————————————————————————————- Selected Publications Authored by Mordecai Elisha Hyams Hyams, M.E. (1885) A preliminary list of additions to Curtis’ catalogue of indigenous and naturalized plants of North…

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…

Land Rich, Cash Poor

It may surprise you to learn that your “Garden” membership is actually membership in the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc., a private, 501(c) (3) non-profit organization that supports the…

Lisa Marie Giencke

…deposited about 400 specimens (most from Battle Park in Orange County, NC), and annotated many existing specimens in our fern collection. Ms. Giencke’s greatest legacy to the Herbarium was her…

Kenneth Bryan Raper

…decomposition by cellulose- destroying bacteria. 24. Title: Spore Germination in Dictyostelium discoideum Author(s): David A. Cotter; Kenneth B. Raper Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United…

Budd Elmon Smith

…support. New recruitment strategies were implemented that aimed to increase the student body from its tenuous level of about 400. In 1955, Dr. Smith interested Mr. Charles A. Cannon of…

Velma Dare Matthews

…yearbook of Coker College6 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 400 vascular plants collected by Velma Dare Matthews. As we continue to catalog…

Willard Webster Eggleston

(28 March 1863 – 25 November 1935) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged over 400 vascular plant specimens collected by Willard Webster Eggleston. Without…

Walter Lane Barksdale

(23 November 1914 – 26 December 1996)1,2 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates 11 fungal specimens and over 600 vascular plant specimens collected by Walter…

Arthur Oliver Tucker, III

…books including the popular The Encyclopedia of Herbs (2009), and has authored over 400 scientific and popular publications and lectures. Art was also a well-respected, award-winning, international speaker. His love…