John Nathaniel Couch

…A new species of Achlya. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 36: 100-101. 1922 Science in the high school. A review of science teaching in the high schools of…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…if Williston collected any herbarium specimens. Fortunately, the online database where we catalog our specimens (sernecportal.org) also searches other herbaria consortia across North America, including the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium. Searching…

Arbor Renovation Party at the Dead Mule

…There is also a pay lot directly behind the Dead Mule with free parking on Sundays. For more parking info visit www.parkonthehill.com Registration: Register online here or on-site Sunday, June…

Joachim Heinrich Schuette

…USA).1 A search of online herbarium portals in 2021 revealed Schuette’s specimens can also be found in the holdings of MO (Missouri Botanical Garden), ILL (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),…

Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…University to McCormick 27 October 2020. Illinois State Marriage Records. Online index. Illinois State Public Record Offices. . Ancestry.com. Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,…

Lichen Updates: new name and new county records

…Eaglenest Mountain (4925 feet; 35.4962070 latitude, -83.0431905 longitude) and adjacent North Eaglenest Mountain (5066 feet; 35.5002672 latitude, -83.0416956 longitude) are on Eaglenest Ridge, WSW of Lake Junaluska and NW of…

John Robert Raper

…of Sciences, Washington, D.C. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/raper-john.pdf. 2. 1958 John R. Raper Dope Sheet ’33 Yackety Yack Revisited. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Records. 3. Williams, Dudley (1974) Memorandum…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…which over 100 sailors from several ice-bound whaling ships were forced to spend the winter at this northernmost North American outpost. The cotton which McIlhenny had taken with him for…

Donald Culross Peattie

…and uselessness — of local floras. Castanea 11(2): 63-65.   Sources: Peter Friederici (2000) Donald Culross Peattie: Remembering an Early Prophet in Chicago Wilderness. Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Fall 2000. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chicagowilderness.org/resource/collection/0625B160-07C5-482A-8BDF-D86381B9FC77/2000-Fall.pdf…