Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale

…Whiffen Barksdale, 1916-1981. Mycologia 74(3): 359-361. 3. American Type Culture Collection. https://www.atcc.org/ searched 8 May 2020. 4. “Records of the Laboratory (RG5) ALMA WHIFFEN BARKSDALE RECORDS (1938-1973). https://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/libr/finding_guide/barkweb2.asp.html Accessed on…

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…

Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler

…from that year onward are from Manatee County, Florida. “Mrs. Mary Cloyd Stifler was found dead yesterday at her residence after a neighbor had complained to police she had not…

Elam T. Bartholomew

…classify flowering plants. By 1885 he had in his herbarium a specimen of every phanerogam [flowering plant] growing in that part of the state. As head of a rapidly enlarging…

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),…

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):…

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…

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…