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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. DEPT. OF BOTANY
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
Summary

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Botany.
Historical collections, 1810-1930s.
2,400 items (3.0 linear feet).

In part typescript and photocopies from various sources.

Papers of, by, and about botanists, assembled ca. 1902-1953 by Professor
William C. Coker and others of the Botany Department of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Materials include correspondence and
writings of Henry Williams Ravenel; letters from Asa Gray, Stephen T.
Olney, Moses A. Curtis, and others; copies of botanical correspondence from
various sources; biographical and bibliographical materials and some
correspondence concerning 135 botanists, mainly 19th century Americans; and
scrapbooks and portfolios containing Hannah Whitson's writings and pictures
for popular presention of botanical subjects in the 1930s.

Transfer, 1959.

ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
   Botanists--United States--History.
   Botany--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History.
   Coker, William Chambers, 1872-1953.
   Curtis, M. A. (Moses Ashley), 1808-1872.
   Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.
   Olney, Stephen T. (Stephen Thayer), 1812-1878.
   Ravenel, Henry William, 1814-1887.
   University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Botany.
   Whitson, Hannah.

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            their descendants, as stipulated by United States
            copyright law.