W.C. Coker, Professor of Botany, Takes Crew Fungi Hunting in Transylvania County, July 23, 1926

Coker After the Fungi. . . He and His Fellow Botanists Making Raid on Transylvania County

William C. Coker, professor of botany in the University, is out after the fungi again this summer.

This year his hunting ground is in Transylvania County in the mountains of western North Carolina. He left here by train yesterday, and his fellow fungi hunters—Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Totten, Miss Alma Holland, Mrs. W.W. Pierson, Miss Velma Matthews, Miss Aliason, Adrian Couch and Mr. Braxton—are following him by automobile, armed to the teeth with the weapons of their trade.

Last summer Mr. Coker went to Blowing Rock on a similar quest. But the weather was dry that the fungi were killed the moment they peeped their heads out of the ground, and so the botanists had to take to golf as the best available solace. The rains of the last month or so make the outlook better for the 1926 raid.

The collectors will remain on the job about two weeks.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, July 23, 1926

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