Fall Board Meeting 2023

NCBGF Fall Board Meeting Friday, November 17, 2023 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Hybrid NCBG – Joslin Classrooms or via Zoom Join online: https://unc.zoom.us/s/96128624304 Join by phone: 1-301-715-8592 Enter Meeting…

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…would take care of itself. As he had never had a teacher of Botany himself, he developed his own peculiar methods of presenting the subject. Through his wide study and…

Work from Home Work-Study Students

When Carolina shifted to all on-line classes at the end of Spring Break due to Covid-2019, we faced the challenge of how to keep our loyal and hard-working Work-Study Students…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…collected from the Gulf Islands National Seashore in Gulf Breeze, Florida. As we have never had tree cores in our collection, I asked for more details – what species of…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

…cubensis. The genus name is derived from the Greek and means “bare head,” while the specific epithet means “coming from Cuba” and refers to the type locality where Franklin Sumner…

James Arthur Doubles, Jr.

…Hill. 2. SS no. 416-42-9234; Issue State: Alabama. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social…

Albert Commons

…is likely additional specimens will be found. NCU’s vascular plants can be searched at www.sernecportal.org NCU curates only about 40 fungal specimens collected by Commons, and most of these were…

Frances Ernestine Silliman

…University of Minnesota, College of Education with a Bachelors of Science in June, 1928. (8) Frances Silliman had a long association with Bridgewater College in Virginia. She taught Biology at…

Paul Sackman Marx

…our classmate, Phillip Rury, Paul did lots of chromosome squashes on that genus. He became an avid kyaker. To my knowledge Paul did not complete his Ph.D., but instead went…