Mildred Gant Stites Reed

…of Dartmouth College in 2002. Her spouse, John F. Reed, an alumnus of Dartmouth College (A.B., 1933), had apparently given his herbarium to his alma mater.2 The Academy of Natural…

New Species of Foamflower

…life. He surely must have lived in the town of Gloucester, but he had property in the country on the Piankatank River (or creek) and the Poropotank River (or creek),…

Emma Lewis Lipps

…tract of land located in Floyd County, Georgia that had never been cleared for cultivation. Dr. Lipps used the forest as a natural lab for teaching biology and a great…

Maeburn Bruce Huneycutt

…a complicated man—I found letters from students who had him as a professor many years ago. They continued to write him and obviously had very deep affection for him,” says…

Seraph A. Bliss

…grandfather, Isaac Bliss, Sr.5 NCU curates approximately 2,555 fungal specimens collected by Arthur Bliss Seymour.   SOURCES: 1. Seraph A. Bemis Bliss. Find A Grave memorial # 179557302. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179557302/seraph-a-bliss accessed…

George Shuford Ramseur

…of the William R. Laurie University Archives & Special Collections, The University of the South. Ramseur married Ruth Tate Anderson on 6 June 1953, and together they had three children….

Peter Edward “Ed” Bostick

…investigation of Chandler Mountain, St. Clair Co., Alabama. Castanea 32(3): 133-154. SOURCES: http://www.lib.unc.edu/biology/theses.html accessed on 30 December 2010 http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/oralhistories/Ed%20Bostick.pdf accessed on 30 December 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw_State_University accessed on 30 December 2010…

Paul Otto Schallert

…neighborhood, and one of only a few remaining in Winston-Salem… In 1920, Paul O. Schallert bought the property. Schallert was a physician and surgeon, and had an office in the…

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…