…also collected many natural objects, mostly bryophytes and beetles. His collection of palaearctic beetles includes about 100,000 specimens and his bryophyte collection is roughly 30,000 specimens. He personally collected only…
…is the exact nature of this relationship? The internet has only amplified these questions. For example, charity review websites are hugely influential with many donors; they start with a general…
by Bruce A. Sorrie1 Streamhead Lobelia (Lobelia batsonii), a newly described wildflower found only in the Sandhills of North & South Carolina. Photo by B. A. Sorrie Since the mid…
…we chose to forget quickly… We liked Corvallis immediately. We rented a spacious house for our first year. In June of 1961, we bought a house about ten blocks from…
…Row, New York. Radford, Laurie Stewart. 1991. Our Mountaintop Experience… Seems Like Only Yesterday… [Privately published by Laurie Stewart Radford, Chapel Hill]. 119 pp. Radford, Laurie Stewart and Albert E….
…eye was a particularly lovely specimen of Parnassia grandifolia, or large-leaved grass-of-Parnassus. Parnassia is “a genus of 15-70 species, herbs, primarily of arctic and north temperate areas. Our species (especially…
…of 260 trees per acre at maturity Monitoring reports of vegetation success in restored areas quarterly for the first year Seeding throughout permanently disturbed area (within 30 feet of project…
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curatrix, UNC Chapel Hill Herbarium I have recently become very interested in a place I’ve never visited. It’s not a terribly exotic place, nor is it…
…Cora to be a hyper-diverse group of species. Lichenologists predict that there are likely 450 species in the group, of which only a fraction have been fully investigated and described.2,…
(24 September 1907 – 23 June 1994) Information for this post originally compiled by Lisa Giencke in December 2005; updated by Carol Ann McCormick in 2020. Special thanks to Dennis…