Orchids: Masters of Deception

…his first book after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin had used these nectar-producing tubes as examples of the precise adaptions of complex structures by natural selection. In this…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…of South Carolina] faculty member, and department head, member of the SC Hall of Science and Technology, and beloved biology professor and mentor to hundreds of practicing scientists and teachers….

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…shy of man, was endowed with a strong, vigorous personality — far better able to cope with the advance of civilization than its lesser companion, the Pileated Woodpecker (Ceophleus pileatus);…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…accessed on 26 September 2011. 6. The Gallinas River is situated near the present Sierra Leone – Liberia border, was a principal departure point for vessels carrying enslaved people. http://www.pdavis.nl/Gallinas.htm…

Arbor Renovation Party at the Dead Mule

…There is also a pay lot directly behind the Dead Mule with free parking on Sundays. For more parking info visit www.parkonthehill.com Registration: Register online here or on-site Sunday, June…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…landscape plan included allées of trees that reinforced the formal arrangement of the road network, addition of open spaces resembling collegiate quadrangles, straight lines of trees along the edges of…

Joachim Heinrich Schuette

…head cashier at the Kellogg-Citizens National Bank; Sibyl Schuette, was Head Librarian of the Brown County [Wisconsin] Public Library from 1932 to 1956; and Henry Schuette became a professor of…

Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr.

…was born April 25, 1947, in James Archer Smith Hospital, Homestead, Fla., to Charles Lewis McCartney Sr. and Katharine Orphanedes McCartney. A fourth-generation South Floridian, he attended Neva King Cooper…

Velma Dare Matthews

…of 1935 the writer [Dr. Velma Dare Matthews] found a most unusual fungus growing on a small dead fly in a pool in a depression of a large rock on…