Contacts

358 Bio Sci Bldg
Box 90342
(919) 660-7298 (office)
vsbryan@duke.edu (email)

Education

Ph.D. Botany	Duke University	1955
M.S. Botany	University of Michigan	1950
B.S. Botany	University of Michigan	1948

Areas of Research

Systematics and Cytology; Bryophytes - Ephemeraceae

Employment History

Duke University

Senior Research Associate, 1988

Acting Dean of Instruction, 1969

Assistant Dean of Instruction, 1965 - 1970

Senior Research Associate, Botany, 1963 - 1965

Research Assistant, 1954 - 1958

The Women's College

Assistant Professor of Botany, 1969

Stanford University

Research Scientist, February, 1953 - March, 1953

University of Michigan

Teaching Fellow, Botany, 1948 - 1951

United States Signal Corps

Engineering Aide, 1941 - 1945

Publications   (search)

Papers Published

1. V.S. Bryan, Specimens Underlying the Systematic Treatment of the Ephemeraceae in the Bryophyte Flora of America, edited by Larry L. St. Clair, Evansia, vol. 22 no. (1) (March, 2005), pp. 13 - 29
2. Apospory in mosses, The Bryologist, vol. 104 no. 1 (2001), pp. 40-46
3. Ephemeraceae W. P. Schimper, Bryophyte Flora of North America (2000) [org]
4. Synonymy in Micromitrium, The Bryologist, vol. 102 no. 3 (1999), pp. 409-411
5. M-chromosome behavior in the moss Clasmatodon parvulus, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden no. 45 (1987), pp. 122-134
6. The question of post-reduction in Sphagnum, American Journal of Botany, vol. 53 no. 10 (1966), pp. 1012-1015
7. with L. E. Anderson, Chromosome numbers in mosses of eastern North America, Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society no. 74 (1958), pp. 173-199
8. with L. E. Anderson, Systematics of the autoicous species of Ditrichum subg. Ditrichum no. 10 (1957), pp. 121-137
9. Cytotaxonomic studies of the Ephemeraceae and Funariaceae, The Bryologist no. 60 (1957), pp. 103-126
10. with L. E. Anderson, The Ephemeraceae in North America, The Bryologist no. 60 (1957), pp. 67-102
11. with L. E. Anderson, A cytotaxonomic investigation of Fissidens cristatus. Wils. and F. adiantoidies (1956)
12. Cytological and taxonomic studies of some species of Astomum, Acaulon, and Phascum, The Bryologist no. 59 (1956), pp. 118-129
13. Chromosomes and systematic position of the inoperculate mosses Pleuridium and Bruchia, American Journal of Botany no. 43 (1956), pp. 460-468
14. Chromosone studies in the genus Sphagnum, The Bryologist no. 58 (1955), pp. 16-39
15. with W. C. Steere and L. E. Anderson, Chromosome studies on California mosses, Memoirs Torrey Botanical Club, vol. 20 no. 4 (1954), pp. 1-75

Papers Submitted

1. with David Holyoak, A moss new to Ireland, Journal of Bryology (2004)

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