Hiden Toy Cox, Jr.

…interpreted to the people of this country and the world…I think we, as a country, need to make quite clear to other nations of the world that we have major…

Elbert Thomas Bartholomew

…near Stockton, Kansas. He taught in the county schools near his home for three years. During this time, his father edited and published Ellis and Everhart’s Fungi Columbiana (1901). The…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…when annotating specimens. Other herbaria curating specimens collected by Barksdale include The Academy of Natural Sciences (PH; vascular plants), Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT; vascular plants), Converse College (CONV;…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…he long resided, familiar to botanists almost throughout the world. Western Missouri was a frontier country at the close of the Civil War, and nowhere had gorilla [sic; guerilla] warfare…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…Egbert responded to a notice in the university newspaper that led to a position as a secondary school teacher in biology at Canton Christian College, later Lingnan University, in China……

Samuel B. Jones, Jr.

…Rodora 89: 35-40. Jones, S. B. 1983. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of Georgia, The Friends of the Botanical Garden 12(1): 3-6. Jones, S. B. 1982. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…says Scott Ward, research botanist at NCBG. “Many of us in the botanical world have taken little time to learn the various ecologies, habitat requirements, and tedious scale architectures of…

The BGF Gets a New Name

…country to support a public garden, so a more descriptive name may have been deemed unnecessary at that time. But starting in the 1990s, the outside world started to change….

Carnivorous Conservation

…plant, it’s an opportunity to live a little longer in a habitat nearly barren of nutrients. The Venus flytrap, and carnivorous plants like them, are oddities of the plant world….