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Science, medicine, agriculture and technology 500 to 639, 650 to 699: 43 titles as they stand on the shelf at OCPL, in call-number order. North Carolina history bookshelf, E-1: North Carolina histories of every kind, from the university and the State Fair to the state’s natural history and Durham’s Hayti.

• Exploring North Carolina's Natural Areas: Parks, Nature Preserves, and Hiking Trails 2000

  Driving tours of the state's natural areas, 38 in all, written by naturalists from across the state and edited by Dirk Frankenberg, a marine sciences professor at UNC Chapel Hill. Grouped by the coast, the coastal plain, the Piedmont and the mountains, each tour follows a route of thirty to seventy miles linking parks, preserves, hiking and nature trails and scenic overlooks. UNC Press, 2000, 412 pages with 42 maps.

  Call number 508.756 EXP View in OCPL catalog →
• Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas: A Field Guide to Favorite Places From Chimney Rock to Charleston Stewart, Kevin G. · 2007

  A field guide to geological sites across North and South Carolina, from Chimney Rock in the mountains to Charleston on the coast, by Kevin G. Stewart and Mary-Russell Roberson. Stops include DuPont State Forest, Whiteside Mountain and Grandfather Mountain, and the text takes up rocks, minerals, gold, fossils and plate tectonics. The University of North Carolina Press published it in 2007 with color plates, maps and an index.

  Call number 557.56 STE View in OCPL catalog →
• A North Carolina Naturalist: H.H. Brimley: Selections From His Writings Brimley, Herbert Hutchinson · 1971

  Selected writings of Herbert Hutchinson Brimley, the English-born, self-taught naturalist who studied North Carolina's wildlife for more than sixty years, in the field and as longtime head of the state's natural history museum in Raleigh. Eugene P. Odum edited the collection, which the University of North Carolina Press first published in 1949, three years after Brimley's death; Books for Libraries Press reprinted it in 1971, 205 pages with photographs and portraits.

  Call number fNC 574.975 BRI View in OCPL catalog →
• Putting Down Roots: Foundations of Botany at Carolina : With A Concluding Chapter on the History of the Department of Botany Burk, William R. · 2023

  William R. Burk's history of botany at the University of North Carolina, from its early natural scientists such as Denison Olmsted and Elisha Mitchell through later figures including George Francis Atkinson, Joseph Austin Holmes and Henry Van Peters Wilson, closing with a chapter on the Department of Botany itself. Published in Fort Worth in 2023.

  Call number NC 580.9 BURK View in OCPL catalog →
• Essays on William Chambers Coker, Passionate Botanist Joslin, Mary Coker · 2003

  Mary Coker Joslin's essays on her uncle, William Chambers Coker (1872 to 1953), the University of North Carolina botanist who began the Coker Arboretum in Chapel Hill in 1903 and chaired the botany department for 36 years. She presents him as scientist, teacher, landscape designer and editor. Published in Chapel Hill by the Botanical Garden Foundation in 2003, the arboretum's centennial year, with drawings by Sandra Brooks-Mathers and eight pages of plates.

  Call number NC 580.92 JOS View in OCPL catalog →
• Chapel Hill and Elisha Mitchell, the Botanist McVaugh, Rogers · 1996

  Elisha Mitchell, the University of North Carolina professor for whom Mount Mitchell is named, as botanist and as observer of early Chapel Hill, in a study by Rogers McVaugh, Michael R. McVaugh and Mary Ayers. It covers Mitchell's botanical knowledge, the plants of Chapel Hill and the town's historical geography. Published by the Botanical Garden Foundation in Chapel Hill in 1996, 122 pages with illustrations and maps.

  Call number NC 580.92 MCV View in OCPL catalog →
• Botany: Containing A Catalogue of the Plants of the State, With Descriptions and History of the Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines Curtis, M. A. · 1860

  Moses Ashley Curtis's botanical report for the state, issued in 1860 as Part III of North Carolina's Geological and Natural History Survey. It catalogues the plants of North Carolina and describes its trees, shrubs and woody vines; 123 pages with an index. Curtis, an Episcopal priest and botanist, was rector at Hillsborough and died there in 1872. A longer edition followed in 1867, and the state reprinted the shrub and vine accounts in 1945.

  Call number NC 581.078 CUR View in OCPL catalog →
• Stock-poisoning Plants of North Carolina Hardin, James W. · 1966

  Issued in 1966 as Bulletin 414 of the Agricultural Experiment Station at North Carolina State University, James W. Hardin's guide covers the plants of the state that poison livestock. It runs to 126 pages with illustrations, maps, references and an index.

  Call number NC 581.6 HAR View in OCPL catalog →
• Herbs and Herb Lore of Colonial America Colonial Dames of America · 1995

  The Connecticut society of the Colonial Dames of America describes more than fifty herbs and plants that colonial New Englanders used as medicines, dyes, disinfectants and seasonings, from bee balm and feverfew to tansy and yarrow. Each plant has a drawing from an early herbal, its common and botanical names, and an account of its household uses and lore. First published at Wethersfield in 1970 as 'Simples, Superstitions & Solace'; reprinted by Dover in 1995.

  Call number NC 581.63 COLONIAL View in OCPL catalog →
• Lindy's Identification Keys for Native Plants Growing in the North Carolina Triangle Lindholm, Roy C. · 2002

  Illustrated keys for identifying the native plants of the Triangle region around Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, compiled by Roy C. Lindholm and published by him in Chapel Hill in 2002, with a short bibliography and indexes.

  Call number NC 581.975 LINDHOLM View in OCPL catalog →
• Atlas of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas Radford, Albert E. · 1965

  Maps showing where the vascular plants of North and South Carolina grow, compiled by Albert E. Radford of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Harry E. Ahles and C. Ritchie Bell, three years before their Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968). Issued in Raleigh in 1965 as Technical Bulletin 165 of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 208 pages, chiefly maps, with an index.

  Call number NC 581.975 RAD View in OCPL catalog →
• Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas Radford, Albert E. · 1968

  The standard manual for identifying the vascular plants of North and South Carolina, from ferns to conifers and flowering plants, by Albert E. Radford of the University of North Carolina with Harry E. Ahles and C. Ritchie Bell. The University of North Carolina Press published it in 1968: 1,183 pages with illustrations and a bibliography.

  Call number NC 581.975 RAD View in OCPL catalog →