The University of North Carolina Herbarium has
catalogued a handful of specimens collected by J.E. Harned. All were collected in Maryland ca. 1910,
and came to NCU in a gift of specimens from HNH in 2002. Harned was one of
the original members of the Southern Appalachians Botanical Club in 1937 (1).
Joseph Edward Harned, undated, in
the collection of Thomas Harned
Joseph Edward Harned
was born 1 December 1879 in Oakland, Garrett County, Maryland, and died in
that same town on 5 May 1951 (2).
Joseph Edward Harned
graduated Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and owned a drugstore
in Oakland, Maryland. He authored and privately published “Wildflowers of the
Alleghanies” in 1931.
He was awarded honorary Doctor of Science from
West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1948.
An excerpt from the College’s alumni magazine of the time noted “Dr.
Joseph E. Harned, a successful druggist of Oakland,
Maryland, is famous throughout scientific fields as a botanist whose
monumental book, “Wild Flowers of the Alleghenies,” fully illustrated, is a
veritable encyclopedia of lore concerning the Appalachian flora and lists
more than one thousand wild flowers, their histories, and the legends which
have grown up around them.”
PUBLICATIONS (possibly incomplete list)
Harned, Joseph E. (1931) Wild Flowers of the Alleghanies. Oakland, Md: the author.
SOURCES
1.
Baranski, Michael J. ( ?date ) Fifty years of southern Appalachian botany
– a profile of the Southern Appalachian Club.
Appendix II. Original members
of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club (adapted from a list first
published in Castanea 2: 19-16.
1937). http://www.sabs.appstate.edu/History/SABCHistApp2.htm accessed on 12 December 20ll.
2.
from http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46470887
accessed on 12 December 2011
3.
personal
communication, Brett Miller, Archivist & Music Librarian, Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library, West Virginia Wesleyan College,
Buckhannon, WV. Email of 13 December,
2011.
