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JOHN NATHANIEL COUCH 57 W. J. Koch, and work done by William R. Burk of the Couch Library at UNC- CH and Chuck Bland, Couch's last graduate student and collaborator, of the Department of Biology, East Carolina University, culminating in 'John Nathaniel Couch, 1896-1986," Mycologia, 81:181-89, 1989. I am grateful to Else Couch and Sally Couch Vilas for their stories and insights, affirmations, and corrections. I thank Susan J. Szaniszlo for her research, editing comments and suggestions, and some of the typing associated with preparation of this paper. I also thank Susan B. Crossland for typing the final drafts. Their help is very much appreciated. NOTES 1. "John Robert Raper (1911-74)." In Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences, vol. 57, pp. 347-70. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. 2. "John Nathaniel Couch," Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (Spring, 1968):4. 3. William R. Burk and Charles E. Bland, "John Nathaniel Couch, 1896-1986," Mycologia 81(1989):185.