William Chambers Coker
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Template:Use mdy dates William Chambers Coker (October 24, 1872 – June 26, 1953) was an American botanist and mycologist.
Biography
He was born at Hartsville, South Carolina on October 24, 1872. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1894 and took postgraduate courses at Johns Hopkins University and in Germany. 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 Henry Roland Totten) (1916); and The Saprolegniaceae of the United States (1921). Besides these he contributed numerous articles on morphology and botany to scientific journals. He died on June 26, 1953, and was buried on June 29, 1953.[1]
He is also honoured in the name of Cokeromyces, which is a pathogenic fungus.[2]
Family
Coker was the son of businessman James Lide Coker, and the brother of agriculturalist David Robert Coker.[3]!-- although Marquis does not explicitly say that David Robert and William Chambers were brothers, not only did they have the same surname, they were born in the same city, two years apart, to parents with exactly the same names and surnames. I therefore reasonably infer.-->
Species described
- Lactarius subtorminosus Coker (1918)[4]
- Multifurca furcata (Coker) Buyck & V. Hofstetter (2008) – as Lactarius furcatus[4]
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References
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- ↑ COKER, William Chambers, in Who's Who in America (14th edition, 1926); p. 480
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