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Henry Roland Totten taught botany at UNC from 1914 to 1917 and again from 1919 until he retired in 1963. He followed W. C. Coker as director of the campus arboretum, and his efforts helped secure the site of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill.
Source: NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Totten, Henry Roland
Also found in catalogs as H. R. (Henry Roland) Totten.
1892–1974 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as H. R. Totten → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Henry Roland Totten.
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William Chambers Coker and Henry Roland Totten identify the shrubs and climbing plants growing around Chapel Hill, reprinted in 1916 from the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, volume 32, number 2. Topics include the identification of shrubs and climbing plants in the town. The paper works as a field list of the local woody flora.
Eight linear feet and about 5,000 items make up the H. R. Totten papers, 1912 to 1973, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3843. Maps are among the material. Subjects include botanical gardens and arboretums in North Carolina, the Highlands Biological Station, medicinal plants and mushroom culture, the Department of Botany at Chapel Hill and William Chambers Coker, and the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
Lionel Dane Melvin, born 1907, left papers covering 1929 and then 1941 to 1976. The papers concern his work as a botanist and horticulturist, including interests in North Carolina geology and in plant conservation through the North Carolina Wild Flower Preservation Society, with Frank Porter Graham, H. R. Totten of the university's Department of Botany, and Immanuel Velikovsky. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4076.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Totten, H. R. (Henry Roland), 1892-1974.
Gardening is the through line of Adelaide Totten's papers, 1918 to 1973, one thousand items in two linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4122. Topics include flower gardening in North Carolina, the judging of flower shows, the Garden Club of North Carolina and the National Council of State Garden Clubs, with H. R. Totten also named and Chapel Hill as the local setting.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Totten, H. R. (Henry Roland), 1892-1974.
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Picture: Henry Roland Totten, Yackety Yack, 1913. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1913 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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