Augustin Gattinger

…botany initiated me into the science. Moreover, I had from earlier school years been a botanical collector, and had given a great deal of time to these studies. After the…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…Range: L – Z. Ancestry.com. New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Index, 1901-2016 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. 7. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185209830/walter-lane-barksdale: accessed 06…

Bernard Carl Mikula

(? – 2017) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected by Bernard Mikula; as we continue to catalog our collections…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…completed her Masters degree in 1964 and the title of her thesis was “Studies in the parasitism of Olipidiopsis incrassata on members of the Saprolegniaceae”. She completed her Doctoral degree…

2021 Wildflower of the Year

…biting insects. Additionally, the berries are edible, and though somewhat bland and mealy when consumed raw, they can be cooked and prepared into jelly or wine. Beautyberry is very easy…

Gerald McCarthy

…(Massey, 1897), ignoring the fact that McCarthy had delivered numerous oral presentations and had interacted well with hearing persons. McCarthy answered this charge with a long and pointed rebuttal (McCarthy,…