Abbé Auguste Barthelemy Langlois

…the drying of specimens most difficult. Upon going to Point-a-la-Hache, he at once renewed his botanical work, but being entirely without books and wholly unacquainted with any American botanist he…

Garden Shop

…a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Shop Online Gifts Share your love for nature with our t-shirts, table linens sewn by…

William Willard Ashe

newspaper, the Evening Crescent. In 1879 he purchased the Raleigh Observer, and in 1881 the Daily News, joining both papers as the News and Observer – which is still a…

Gerald McCarthy

…high-road and byway, bog and mountain peak, ever on the look-out for floral strangers, whom they ruthlessly sacrifice to the glue-and-paper deity.” — Gerald McCarthy The University of North Carolina…

New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…a fold of newsprint, with a label tucked in with the plant. There were 35 plants in all; the collection of Carex cristatella, “crested sedge,” had enough material for two…

William Basil Fox

…University (MU), Mississippi Museum of Natural Sciences (MMNS), Mississippi State University (MISSA), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), New York Botanical Garden (NY; major repository), Pennsylvania State University (PAC), Rutgers University (CHRB),…

William Battle Cobb

…for the U.S. Soil Survey from 1913 to 1920, and as a geologist & soil expert for the American Rural Planning Association in Madison, Wisconsin in 1920. W. B. Cobb…