The Stipitate Hydnums of the Eastern United States
By William C. Coker, Alma H. Beers
220 pp., 7 x 10
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6854-6
Published: September 2011
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Originally published in 1951.
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About the Author
William Chambers Coker (October 24, 1872 - June 26, 1953) was an American botanist. He taught for several years in the summer schools of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., and in 1902 became associate professor of botany at the University of North Carolina. He established the Coker Arboretum in 1903. He was made professor in 1907 and Kenan professor of botany in 1920. In 1903, he was chief of the botanic staff of the Bahama Expedition of the Geographical Society of Baltimore. Professor Coker was a member of many scientific societies and the author of The Plant Life of Hartsville, S. C. (1912); The Trees of North Carolina (with H. R. Totten) (1916); and The Saprolegniaceae of the United States (1921). Besides these he contributed numerous articles on morphology and botany to scientific journals.
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