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Collectors of the UNC Herbarium
Ferdinand Blanchard
(1851-1892)
The following information was compiled by Carol Ann
McCormick,
Assistant Curator, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
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University of North Carolina Herbarium has approximately 200 herbarium
specimens collected by Dr. Ferdinand Blanchard. Most of these
specimens were received in 2002 as a gift from the Jesup Herbarium
of Dartmouth College. A few of these specimens date from Blanchard’s
days in Peacham, Vermont, but the vast majority were collected
in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. between 1890 and 1892.
A document from the Rauner Special Collections of Dartmouth College
Library claims that “a collection” of Dr. Blanchard’s
herbarium specimens was given to the “St. Johnsbury Museum”.
The Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont,
holds several hundred of Dr. Blanchard’s specimens. Most,
according to collections manager Raney Bench, are from New England.
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Portrait of Ferdinand Blanchard
courtesy of Rauner Special Collections
of Dartmouth College Library |
Other herbaria listed by the Harvard Herbaria
database of collectors as holding Blanchard specimens are:
| DS |
Dudley Herbarium at
the California Academy of Sciences |
| MIN |
University of Minnesota |
| MO |
Missouri Botanic Garden |
| NY |
New York Botanic Garden |
| US |
Smithsonian Institution |
Ferdinand Blanchard was one of five children
born to Seth and Charlotte Bryant Blanchard. He graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1874. He and Alice G. White were married
in West Windsor, VT in 1875. Ferdinand earned a medical degree
in 1878 from Dartmouth Medical School. He practiced medicine in
Union Village, Vermont for two years, and Peacham, Vermont, for
ten years. The family moved to Washington, D. C. in 1890. Ferdinand
Blanchard died in 1892, at the age of 41, in Washington, D. C.
Ferdinand Blanchard and Alice G. White
Blanchard had 6 children, only 2 of whom survived to adulthood.
Three children – all under the age of 4 – died within
a month of each other of diphtheria in the spring of 1880. Another
son, Seth, died in infancy from hydrocephaly. Linn, his only son
to survive infancy, was named in honor of Swedish taxonomist Linneaus.
Glee (Helen Glee), his youngest child, was named to express the
joy that her parents felt upon her birth.
Ferdinand Blanchard's Family History
Cady, Daniel L. (1930) Another
W. Windsor Doctor Who Became Distinguished: Ferdinand Blanchard,
with Literary and Medical Degrees From Dartmouth – Writer
of Prose and Poetry. Journal [newspaper], Windsor, VT, issue
of Friday, July 25, 1930.
Sources: Rauner Special Collections of Dartmouth College Library,
New Hanover, NH
Special Thanks to:
Sarah Hartwell and Joshua Shaw of Rauner Special Collections,
Dartmouth College Library
  
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Last Updated: 18 August
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