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Tag: Herbarium

Lewis Henry Lighthipe

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Carol Ann McCormick

24 January 1843 — 14 December 1927 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 60 specimens collected by Lewis Henry Lighthipe.  Of those, about 2/3…

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Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

Posted on February 12, 2020 (February 12, 2020) by Carol Ann McCormick
Gertrude Grimsley, herbarium specimen collector

14 April 1903 – 18 May 1955 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has about 20 plant specimens collected by Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott.  Most specimens…

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Thomas Fanning Wood

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Carol Ann McCormick
Portrait of Thomas Fanning Wood for his Collector profile

(1841 — 1892) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has found only a handful of Wood’s specimens in our collection. All specimens were collected in 1885…

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Charles Wright

Posted on December 27, 2019 (December 27, 2019) by Carol Ann McCormick
illustration for Charles Wright, Herbarium collector

(29 October 1811 – 11 August 1885) “As a careful and indefatigable explorer and collector, and also an acute observer, he merits the highest praise,and will be long and honorably…

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Raymond Louis Wyatt

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Carol Ann McCormick
illustration for Raymond Louis Wyatt, Herbarium collector page

(b. 23 November 1926) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium has cataloged about 40 vascular plant specimens collected by Raymond Louis Wyatt, who usually signed his labels…

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Lawson Edwin Yocum

Posted on December 27, 2019 (December 14, 2022) by Carol Ann McCormick
portrait of Lawson Edwin YOCUM, herbarium collector

(10 August 1890 –  23 February 1977)1 In 2018 the University of North Carolina at Greensboro gave the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium several hundred herbarium specimens.  We are still…

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Kenneth Bryan Raper

Posted on December 3, 2019 (December 3, 2019) by Carol Ann McCormick

(11 July 1908 – 1987) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged vascular plant, bryological, and fungal specimens collected by Kenneth Bryan Raper, who usually…

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Abram Paschal Garber

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Carol Ann McCormick

[Abraham Pascal Garber] (23 February 1838 – 25 August 1881) 1,2,3,5 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has catalogued fourvascular plant specimens collected by A. P….

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Lytt Irvine Gardner, Sr.

Posted on December 1, 2019 (December 3, 2019) by Carol Ann McCormick
Lytt I. Gardner, Herbarium Collector

Photograph of Lytt Gardner, M.D. from the Lytt I. Gardner, M.D. Papers, courtesy of Archives & Special Collections at Upstate Medical University (b. 1917 – d. 1986) The University of…

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Arthur Stanley Pease

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Carol Ann McCormick

(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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