Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures

and international podcast, based on the belief that gardens and gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for potentially positive change in our world, helping to address challenges as wide ranging…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…the Cosmos Club, the Explorers Club and National Presbyterian Church. Although he traveled around the world to find, identify and preserve plants, Dr. Meyer did not need exotic destinations or…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…Dr. F. R. Fosberg has said: “Any perceptive botanist who works extensively in the general Old World collections in the U.S. National Herbarium can scarcely fail to appreciate the prevailing…

NCBGF Officers and Directors

…& Research ICF Certified, Life and Corporate Coaching, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching As a CEO Coach, Mentor and Advisor at Vistage Worldwide, Inc. Niels helps people who run…

Elbert Thomas Bartholomew

…Pi, Gamma Alpha, and Sigma Xi fraternities. He was a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Phytopathological Society, the American Society…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…for Ammophila arenaria (European marrum grass) and Ammophila breviligulata (now called Calamagrostis breviligulata, American beach-grass) in coming weeks. In North Carolina, American beach-grass is found only on the Outer Banks…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…(MWI: vascular plants), United States National Herbarium (US: lichens), and United States National Fungus Collections (BPI: fungi).2 “The Reverend Robert R. Brinker, O.F.M. [Order of Friars Minor], professor of biological…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…books for acquisition by the Surgeon General’s Library. This collection became the core of the present-day United States National Library of Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health,…

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…

Juliet Faunteroy

…“Avoca,” an American Queen Anne-style house built in 1901 that is now a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It currently houses the Avoca…