Background
Couch, John Nathaniel was born on October 12, 1896 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States. Son of John Henry and Sallie Love (Terry) Couch.
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Pp. viii, 480, 114 full pg photo-plts. Cloth, DJ, lg 8vo. First edition. Describes 175 species with detailed descriptions, photographs and line-drawings.
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Standard reference to 140 species of puffballs, stinkhorns, and birds nest fungi. Dover edition also includes "The Gasteromycetae of Ohio" by Minnie May Johnson. Over 950 illustrations.
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Couch, John Nathaniel was born on October 12, 1896 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States. Son of John Henry and Sallie Love (Terry) Couch.
Student, Trinity College (Duke U.), 1914-1917; Bachelor of Arts, Univercity North Carolina, 1919; A.M., U. North Carolina, 1922; Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1924; student, University Nancy (France), spring 1919; student, University Wisconsin, summer, 1923.
Instructor botany, U. North Carolina, 1917-1918;
science teacher high school, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1919-1920;
science teacher high school, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1920-1921;
instructor botany, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1922-1925;
assistant professor, U. North Carolina, 1927-1928;
associate professor, U. North Carolina, 1928-1932;
professor, U. North Carolina, 1932-1945;
Kenan professor botany, U. North Carolina, 1945-1967;
Kenan professor botany emeritus, U. North Carolina, 1967-1986. National Research Council fellow in botany Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1925-1926, Missouri Botanical Garden, 1926-1927. With Johns Hopkins Botanical Exploration, Jamaica, British West Indies California California, summer, 1926.
Visiting professor Johns Hopkins, winters, 1933-1935, University of Virginia, summer, 1933. Cultural exchange specialist unites states department State, India, 1961. Member North Carolina Governor's Science Advisory Committee, 1961-1964.
Vice president XI International Botanical Congress, Seattle, 1969. Special adviser to chairman Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1944.
( Standard reference to 140 species of puffballs, stinkho...)
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Served with United States Army, 1918-1919. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president, chairman botany section 1962). Member National Academy of Sciences India (honorary foreign member), Botanical Society of America (chairman Southeastern section 1951), American Mycological Society (president 1943), National Academy of Sciences (United States of America), American Mosquito Control Association, North Carolina Academy of Sciences (president 1946-1947, Jefferson award, Poteat medal 1937), Indian Phytopath.
Society, Elisha Mitchell Science Society (president 1937-1938), Sigma Xi.
Married Else Dorothy Ruprecht, May 28, 1927. Children– John Philip, Sally Louise Couch Gooder.