Paul Otto Schallert

…of Soviet Socialist Republics in April-May of 1935; he wrote a series of essays, “Russia: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” following this visit.7 Paul Otto Schallert and Flora Grace Jackson were…

William Chambers Coker

…a diverse group of plants that today comprises approximately 12,000 species and plays a major role in terrestrial ecosystems. Pteridophytes were even more important in the past, especially before the…

Philip French-Carson Greear

…married on June 4, 1943. While Philip was in military training, they moved their residency to Helen, Georgia, to be near his parents. Philip was stationed in Japan post World

Allen Hierome Curtiss

…copy of this difficult-to-find 8 page document. Floretta Anna Allen Curtiss (1822-1899). Photograph from Wynne, Michael J. (1996) Phycological Trailblazer No. 9: Floretta Allen Curtiss. Phycological Society of America Newsletter…

Edward Willis Graves

…4. Ancestry.com World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Serive…

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….

Display Gardens

…year round. Carnivorous Plant Collection The southeastern US is home to the world’s most diverse collection of insect-eating plants. Inside these raised beds, you will find insectivorous plants like sundews,…

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…

Elbert Thomas Bartholomew

…with a ready, dry wit. He enjoyed building the apparatus necessary for his experiments. He made this both part of his profession and a hobby, constructing his apparatus at home…