Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…beloved by her husband and admired by people across North Carolina. She died on August 28 in Chapel Hill. Born on May 24, 1925 in Birmingham, Alabama to Emma and…

Duane Francis Houck

…Iowa State University in 1973. Duane Francis Houck taught at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee for 21 years. Photograph courtesy of Alumni Relations, Southern Adventist University Houck taught in…

Abbé Auguste Barthelemy Langlois

…2012. http://www.lahistory.org/site29.php 4. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 June 2020), memorial page for Rev Fr Augustus Barthelmy Langlois (24 Apr 1832–31 Jul 1900), Find a…

Mordecai Elisha Hyams

…Society 117(4): 240-248.   ——————————————————————————————- Selected Publications Authored by Mordecai Elisha Hyams Hyams, M.E. (1885) A preliminary list of additions to Curtis’ catalogue of indigenous and naturalized plants of North…

Paul James Philson

…Oread (/ˈɔːriˌæd, ˈɔːriəd/; Ancient Greek: Ὀρειάς, romanized: Oreiás, stem Ὀρειάδ-, Oreiád-, Latin: Oreas/Oread-, from ὄρος, “mountain”) or Orestiad /ɔːˈrɛstiˌæd, –iəd/; Ὀρεστιάδες, Orestiádes) is a mountain nymph. They differ from each…

Josiah Hale

…http://www.tulane.edu/~darwin/Herbarium/Herbarium/Herbarium%20History.htm http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/RIDDELL.html Torrey and Gray (1842) A Flora of North America 2: 304. Small (1898) Studies in the botany of the southeastern United States XV. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 25(12):…

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),…

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….

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…

Augustin Gattinger

…botany initiated me into the science. Moreover, I had from earlier school years been a botanical collector, and had given a great deal of time to these studies. After the…