1945, TREES OF THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES INCLUDING VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, GEORGIA AND NORTHERN FLORIDA. By William Chambers Coker and Henry Roland Totten.

Book Description: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1945. Hardcover.

The author best describes the scope of his work:"There are many more kinds of trees in North Carolina alone than in the whole of Europe. Weare describing in this book 241 native trees not counting varieties...We are also including 22 foreign trees that have now escaped from cultivation and become established as wild."

Further enhancing this work are hundreds of black and white line sketches, samples of which can be seen in the scans below.

Book Condition: Very Good to near fine for a book over 66 years old, no dust jacket. Third Edition, First Printing. Green cloth with gold gilt titles and decoration of a pine needle on spine. Book has very light edge and corner wear. Square and securely bound. Quite attractive. Numerous black and white drawings and sketches. 5.25" x 8" tall, .75" thick, 419 pages.

Ex-National Geographic Society Library book, and as such, has been very lighly handled.Has the usual library stamps and markings. Hardbound Pages are clean, no marking from previous owners, binding is square and tight. There are noarks of any kind to the illustrations or text.

About The Authors: 

William Chambers Coker (October 24, 1872 - June 26, 1953) was an American botanist. 

William Chambers Coker

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 H. R. 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.

Henry Roland Totten was born in Matthews, North Carolina on November 6, 1892.

Henry Roland Totten
(1892-1974)

He graduated from the Yadkin Collegiate Institute in 1909 and received his A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1913. He completed his graduate work under Dr. William Chambers Coker and promptly joined the Botany Department as a faculty member, teaching general botany, dendrology, pharmacognosy, and plant taxonomy.

His name is especially associated for most people with the woody flora of the southeastern United States, and his book on this topic (co-authored with Dr. Coker) is still an excellent guide to the trees in our area. Dr. Totten also wrote the section on the Fagaceae (the oak and beech family) for the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, a challenging job in our oak-rich region. A hybrid oak, Quercus totteni, was named in his honor and a specimen currently grows near the front entrance to the Totten Center, which houses the offices of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Dr. Totten was instrumental in founding the garden and also served as director of the Coker Arboretum. He died in Chapel Hill on February 9, 1974, only three weeks after the death of his wife.

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