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[Identification of item], in the William R. Burk Collection of Charles Dale Beers Papers #40477, University Archives, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Recieved from William R. Burk in March 2017 (RT 20170315.1) and April 2018 (RT 20180402.1).

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• Beers, Alma Holland.
• Beers, Charles Dale, 1901-
• Burk, William R.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Department of Zoology.
• Zoology--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Zoology--United States--History.

• William R. Burk Collection of Alma Holland Beers Materials, 1930-2008 (5558)

Charles Dale Beers (1901-1976) was a protozoologist and professor of zoology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Beers came to the university as an undergraduate in 1917, and as a student, served as an instructor of botany and zoology. After completing his bachelor's and master's degrees at UNC, he went on to complete his Ph.D. in zoology at Johns Hopkins University in 1925. He returned to UNC as an Assistant Professor of Zoology in 1927. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Zoology in 1929, and to the rank of Professor of Zoology in 1937. In 1941, Beers married botanist Alma Holland of the UNC Department of Botany. Over the course of his career, he published over 60 papers on topics in protozoology. He retired in 1960.

William R. Burk served as Botany Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1979 to 2009. Over the course of his career, he compiled these files on faculty in the departments of Botany and Zoology. He compiled the files intending to write a book on the contributions of faculty in the Department of Botany in the twentieth century. Instead, he wrote Putting Down Roots: Foundations of Botany at Carolina, 1792-1902 (BRIT Press, 2017), a history of the early teaching of botany at the University.

Included in this collection are Charles Dale Beers's lecture notes, illustrations, class schedules, and publications from his time at UNC-CH and his time as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. Also included are Burk's research files on Beers and his wife Alma Holland Beers which contain correspondence with Beers' relatives, photographs, clippings, and other materials.