Random Walk through the Herbarium

…Chapel Hill. Alas, when Union Bridge was replaced ca. 1995 the river bank was heavily disturbed.1 Dr. Radford visited Varnals Creek (sometimes called “Vernal Creek” on labels) several times. On…

Wendell P. Smith

…Wendell Smith the continuity of nature’s show. Forever old, and yet forever new; he knows there is always something new and exciting waiting to be discovered. (2) ### PUBLICATIONS (incomplete…

William Chambers Coker

…Hill as an associate professor. By 1908 he was a full professor and chair of the newly established Botany Department, located in Davie Hall (now home to the Psychology Department)….

Peter MacOwan

…(ILLS; fungi); Kriebel Herbarium, Purdue University (PUL; fungi); New York Botanical Garden (NY; fungi); United States National Fungus Collection (BPI; fungi); University of Illinois Herbarium (ILL; fungi); and the University…

Effie Boon

…State University (USU: UTC), Louisiana State University (LSU), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), New York Botanical Garden (NY), North Carolina State University (NCSC), Sul Ross State University (SRSC), Texas A&M University…

Ferdinand Blanchard

…Blanchard’s specimens include Dudley Herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences (DS), University of Minnesota (MIN), Missouri Botanic Garden (MO), New York Botanical Garden (NY), and United States National Herbarium…

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….

Henry Roland Totten

…Studies (UNCC), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), New York Botanical Garden (NY), North Carolina State University (NCSC), The Pennsylvania State University (PAC), Saint Andrews University (SAPCL), Towson University (BALT), University of…