History
Laurie Stewart Radford, curator from 1936 to
1942, wrote seven articles for the 1984-1986 issues of the Friends of the
Herbarium newsletter. Each article focused on a specific era in the
development of the herbarium. In 1998, she updated the articles and compiled
them into a single 50-page history of the NCU Herbarium. This history spans
from 1908 (the year in which a formal herbarium was created) until 1998. The
document, below, can be viewed in its entirety or as individual chapters.
Each file is in PDF format.
The History of the
Herbarium of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 1908-1998
Individual Chapters
Preface
Chapter One: The First Thirty
Years
Chapter Two: From Birds and
Bugs to Botany
Chapter Three: From Highlands
to World War II
Chapter Four: War's End and
New Beginnings
Chapter Five: Urgently Needed:
A New Manual
Chapter Six: Those Twelve Long
Hard Years
Chapter Seven: Coming of Age
