George Shuford Ramseur

…August 2020.   Special thanks to Dr. Jonathan Evans, Curator UOS and to Matthew Reynolds, William R. Laurie University Archives and Special Collections, The University of the South.    …

Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith

…Kingdom, in 1985. Photograph courtesy of Dr. Garth Foster (far left, pink top), Balfour-Browne Club2   Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith earned her masters degree from the University of London in 1948,…

Samuel B. Jones, Jr.

…Samuel B. Jones, Jr. (1933-2016), Castanea 81(3): 161-163. DOI: 10.2179/16/IM0002 4. Samuel B. Jones obituary, published in Athens Banner-Herald on Feb. 11, 2016. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/onlineathens/obituary.aspx?n=samuel-b-jones&pid=177691674&fhid=3633 accessed on 30 April 2021.  …

Rene Pomerleau

(27 April 1904 – 11 October 1993) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 21 fungal specimens collected by Rene Pomerleau. Most are a species…

NCBGF Foundation History

Foundation History In 2016, The Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc. (BGF) celebrated the 50 anniversary of its establishment and chartering together with the 50th anniversary of NCBG’s trail-opening to the public,…

Harriet Lathrop Merrow

…closed, a victim of the Great Depression, in 1936.” [Kenyan College was an all-male college, and did not begin admitting women until the 1960’s.]3   Harriet Merrow attended the University…

Paul W. Gabrielson

(b. 19 November 1952) Paul Gabrielson is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Biology Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His office & lab are in…

John Adolph Shafer

(February 23, 1863 – February 1, 1918)1   The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 20 vascular plant specimens collected by John Adolph Shafer,…

William Basil Fox

…  PUBLICATIONS: Fox, William B., R. K. Godfrey, and H. L. Blomquist. 1950. Notes on distribution of North Carolina Plants — II. Rhodora 52 (623): 253–71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23304997. Fox, William B.,…