Botanical Art Fundamentals Program

An Online Program Are you an art student or naturalist looking to develop your skills in drawing or painting plants? In our Botanical Art Fundamentals Program, you’ll explore the relationship…

APPLES interns grow in garden

…brings students to nonprofit & governmental agencies and enrolls them in an online service-course that counts toward graduation. “It was a very valuable experience,” said Becca Beechold, a senior environmental…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

Order of Red Men.”4 On 12 August, 1912 Bellamy married Caroline Louise Mallett (1891-1978) of Etowah, Henderson County, North Carolina and together they had two children, Caroline Bellamy Varnau (?…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…Darwin’s hunch was justified when such a moth was later discovered. Orchids are now known to use astonishingly bizarre tricks in order to stick their sacs of pollen onto insects….

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…accessed on 26 September 2011. 6. The Gallinas River is situated near the present Sierra Leone – Liberia border, was a principal departure point for vessels carrying enslaved people. http://www.pdavis.nl/Gallinas.htm…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…good order and evidence of care he finds there, largely the work of Egbert Walker over many years.” Egberts taxonomic research centered on the Myrsinaceae of eastern Asia… He received…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…standing timber on this property was sold to one of the large saw-mills operating in southern Louisiana, and cutting began that year. In order to get the great logs out…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…Year Award; 1976, Education Conservationist of the Year by South Carolina Wildlife Federation; 1982, Order of the Palmetto Award presented by Governor Richard Riley who hosted his Retirement Party at…

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…

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),…