Katherine Augusta Taylor

…her interest in plants is not known. However, it is clear that she took collecting seriously, and it is clear that she corresponded with noted botanists of her day, including…

Herbert Spencer Jackson

…largely instrumental in building up the fungus herbarium in his department, until it now numbers some 94,000 accessions and includes an unusually complete collection of the fungi occurring in a…

Nathan Barrows

…York City in 1857, he was house surgeon in Belleview Hospital in that city. He moved to Falmouth, Massachusetts in 1859 and practiced medicine there until 1864. While in Falmouth…

Miklos Treiber

…the the late Helen Hoffer Treiber. He immigrated to the U.S. at age 7 during the Russian Revolution [sic; Soviet invasion of Hungary] and grew up in Livingston, New Jersey….

Bernard Carl Mikula

…(CM), Chadron State College (CSCN), Clemson University (CLEMS), Northern Arizona University (ASC),Illinois Natural History Survey (ILLS), Indiana University (IND); Louisiana State University (LSU), Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS), Missouri…

Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

former students, often into the wee hours. “I may have taught more in my living room than in my classroom,” she said. Many of her students credit her as a…

Elam T. Bartholomew

…Illinois. Bartholomew was interested in natural sciences and in 1873 began teaching school in a nearby district. In 1874 he moved to Kansas, homesteading on 160 acres in Boy Creek…

Margaret Campbell Campbell

…a particular interest in orchids, as that family accounts for about half of her specimens curated by NCU. How Ms. Campbell became interested in botany is not known, nor is…

Carroll Emory Wood, Jr.

…in the Salem, Virginia school system.”2 Carroll Emory Wood, Jr. earned Bachelor of Science degree from Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia in 1941.1 “During college Carroll had a strong interest…

Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale

…1970. Nutrition and antheridiol-induced branching in Achlya ambisexualis. Mycologia 62: 411-420. Barksdale, Alma Whiffen and L. L. Lasure. 1973. I. Induction of gametangial phenotypes in Achlya. Bull. Torrey. Bot. Club…