On December 18, 2004 Ms. Elizabeth Burch Heston founded and endowed
the Charles T. Mohr Herbarium Internship Fund to be used to support
student interns working with mentors at the University of North
Carolina Herbarium in Chapel Hill.
Elizabeth Burch Heston graduated with a B.A. in English from
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1954. She currently
lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with her husband, John Heston.
Her passion is gardening – the cultivation of daylilies
in particular. By establishing this internship, Ms. Heston is
honoring her great-great-grandfather, botanist Charles Theodore
Mohr (1824 – 1901).
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Charles Mohr was one of Alabama’s first botanists. Mohr
was granted an honorary Ph.D. in 1893 by the University of Alabama
in recognition of his contributions to the knowledge of the State’s
flora and geology. He is best known as the author of Plant Life
in Alabama, published in 1901.
If you are interested in applying for the Charles T. Mohr Herbarium
Internship, please contact Alan S. Weakley, Herbarium Curator,
at (919) 962-0578 or by email at weakley@unc.edu . Any internship
candidate should demonstrate keen interest in the flora of the
southeastern United States, have good typing skills, and have
an interest in learning how to use and curate herbarium specimens.
To make a contribution to or to obtain more information about
the Charles T. Mohr Internship Fund, please contact Charlotte
Jones-Roe, Assistant Director for Development at the North Carolina
Botanical Garden at (919) 962-9458 or by email at jonesroe@email.unc.edu
Sources:
L. J. Davenport (1988)
Charles Mohr, Botanist. Alabama Heritage 10: 32-45.
Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc. (2004) The Charles T. Mohr Herbarium
Internship Fund Endowment Agreement. North Carolina Botanical
Garden, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
C. T. Mohr. Index of Botanists. Harvard University Herbaria.
