Virginia Bryan Papers, 1955-2007

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Summary

Creator:
Bryan, Virginia S.
Abstract:
Virginia Bryan was Assistant Dean of the Woman's College and a botanist. The collection includes correspondence, notes, field notebooks, article reprints, and other materials related to Virgnina Bryan's work as a botanist.
Extent:
2.0 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
UA.29.02.0264
University Archives Record Group:
29 -- Papers of Faculty, Staff, and Associates
29 -- Papers of Faculty, Staff, and Associates > 02 -- Individuals

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes correspondence, notes, field notebooks, article reprints, and other materials related to Virgnina Bryan's work as a botanist.

Biographical / historical:

Virginia Bryan was Assistant Dean of the Woman's College and a botanist.

Born Virginia Schmitt on January 25, 1922 in Ironwood, Michigan, she studied at the University of Michigan, where she received her B.S. in 1948 and her M.S. in 1950, and at Duke University, where she received her Ph.D. in 1955. She taught at the University of Michigan from 1948-1951 and was a research fellow at Stanford University in 1953 before joining the faculty of the Department of Botany at Duke in 1963. Her research interests focused on the cytotaxonomy of mosses, and she conducted research on the topic in Vienna, Austria, from 1967-1968, before returning to Duke as the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Instruction for the Woman's College.

Virginia Bryan was a member of the American Bryological Society, the Botanical Society of America, and the North Carolina Academy of Sciences. She married Paul R. Bryan in August of 1941, and the couple had two children, Paul J. and Elizabeth V. She also had an interest in music, playing contrabass in the Duke and Triangle Symphony Orchestras and serving as the treasurer of the Chamber Arts Society.

Virginia Bryan retired from Duke in February of 1987. She died on July 13, 2017, in Durham, at the age of 95.

Acquisition information:
The Virginia Bryan Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2017.
Processing information:

Processed by Tracy M. Jackson, June, 2018

Accessions described in this collection guide: UA2017.0055.

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Subjects:
Mosses
Names:
Duke University. Department of Botany
Duke University. Woman's College
Bryan, Virginia S.

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[Identification of item], Virginia Bryan Papers, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.