Lytt Irvine Gardner, Sr.

…at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. During World War II, he served with the medical corps and reached the rank of captain. He was the officer in charge of…

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…many of its wealthiest families in the 1800’s. Mount Vernon Place is now designated as a National Landmark Historic District and a Baltimore City Cultural District.2 How Ms. Taylor developed…

Richard J. LeBlond

…joined the National Park Service in 1967 as an administrative assistant at Glacier National Park, transferring to Cape Cod National Seashore in 1968. He left the park service in 1972…

Survey Says…

The North Carolina Botanical Garden participated in a national survey this spring along with over 600 other organizations. The survey focused on how people are connecting to the arts and

Eugene Bourgeau

…(DUKE) curates 3 bryophytes collected by Bourgeau in Saskatchewan, Canada. According to the Harvard Herbaria’s database of botanists, Bourgeau’s types and herbarium are at Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (P), with…

Effie Boon

…States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal…

Peter MacOwan

…(ILLS; fungi); Kriebel Herbarium, Purdue University (PUL; fungi); New York Botanical Garden (NY; fungi); United States National Fungus Collection (BPI; fungi); University of Illinois Herbarium (ILL; fungi); and the University…

Walking with Walter and William

…the state. Now is all changed. The dark days began by the breaking upon the people of the frightful storm of the revolution. No other part of the country suffered…