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Robert Ervin Coker became professor of zoology at Chapel Hill in 1922, chaired his department from 1935 to 1944 and was named a Kenan professor in 1939. After retiring from teaching in 1947 he organized an Institute of Fisheries Research at Frank Porter Graham's request. He died in Chapel Hill in 1967 and was buried in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
Source: NCpedia: Coker, Robert Ervin (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1979)
Also found in catalogs as R. E. (Robert Ervin) Coker.
1876–1967 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
5 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 4 works by R. E. Coker.
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Robert Ervin Coker reports on anomalies in the distribution of crustaceans in the Carolinas and appends a list of cyclopoids from the general region of Chapel Hill. Reprinted from the June 1938 Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, which the society published in Chapel Hill, it is both a local faunal list and a wider distribution study.
Robert Ervin Coker (1876 to 1967) wrote this short 1951 typescript on the beginnings of laboratory work at the University of North Carolina, and the copy carries some handwritten notations. Topics include the teaching of science, laboratory rooms and equipment at Chapel Hill, and the university curriculum. No place of production is recorded. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.
R.E. Coker describing the new zoology building at the University of North Carolina, reprinted from the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, volume 56, number 2, for December 1940. Published at Chapel Hill by the society. A short piece of record on one addition to the science campus.
Sixty three linear feet, about 50,000 items, from the marine biologist Robert Ervin Coker (1876-1967), with dates reaching from 1748 to 1968. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3380. Topics include marine biology and zoology teaching at the university, the United States Bureau of Fisheries, the state Board of Conservation and Development, the Chapel Hill School Board, family life in South Carolina, and the diaries of Sarah Witherspoon Ervin McIver.
Collier Cobb (1862-1934) taught at the University of North Carolina and made photographs there from the 1890s into the 1920s. Approximately 500 items in seven linear feet, P0013 in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC. Subjects include campus buildings, the Old Well, alumni, employees, and faculty, with portraits including Wilson Caldwell, Harry Woodburn Chase, R. D. W. Connor, and Frederick H. Koch.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coker, R. E. (Robert Ervin), 1876-1967.
A typescript memorial to Robert Ervin Coker (1876-1967), the marine biologist and zoologist, submitted for the minutes of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and dated 2 February 1968. Thirteen leaves with an unnumbered page, part of the North Carolina Collection at UNC.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coker, R. E. (Robert Ervin), 1876-1967.
A printed tribute to Robert Ervin Coker, the biologist who taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the university and dated 4 June 1966. Eleven unnumbered pages with a plate carrying his portrait.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coker, R. E. (Robert Ervin), 1876-1967.
Marine science records made at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1937 to 1999, about 10,400 items in 15 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40068. The institute grew out of fisheries research work, and topics include research grants in North Carolina, the Knapp Foundation, and the zoologist R. E. Coker (1876-1967).
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coker, R. E. (Robert Ervin), 1876-1967.
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