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[Identification of item], in the University of North Carolina Department of Botany Historical Collections, #2053, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Transfer 1959

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• 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.

Papers of, by, and about botanists, assembled circa 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 presentation of botanical subjects in the 1930s.