Richard J. LeBlond

…joined the National Park Service in 1967 as an administrative assistant at Glacier National Park, transferring to Cape Cod National Seashore in 1968. He left the park service in 1972…

William Chambers Coker

…He had also begun the planting of the Coker Arboretum adjacent to Davie Hall. Coker’s research interests were far-ranging. His Ph.D. research concerned the embryogeny of Taxodium (bald cypress). He…

Frederick William Gray

…devoted to the growing of gladiolus: Yearbook (Gladiolus-growing), The Illinois Glad Bulletin, “Gladiolus“, Calgary, Canada, and the New Zealand Yearbook. Although his contributions in this field are of much importance,…

Norton G. Miller

…him to explorations throughout the northern latitudes from New York and New England to Michigan, Colorado, the West Coast, the southeast, Alaska, Russia, Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and Japan….

Eugène Poilane

…in Tonkin but had lost almost everything at the end of the Franco-Vietnamese war, when he abandoned his property in what became North Vietnam. Llinares had no love for the…

Digging into the Science

…F. C. Naczi, Alan Weakley, George D. Gann, Bruce G. Baldwin, James Miller, Patrick McIntyre, Brent D. Mishler, Gerry Moore, Richard G. Olmstead, Anna Strong, Kathryn Kennedy, Bonnie Heidel, and…

Arthur Stanley Pease

…Four introduced plants at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rhodora 10: 167. —- (1908) Preliminary lists of New England Plants XV, addenda. Rhodora 10: 36. —- (1909) Certain railroad weeds of northern New…

Max Hoyt Hommersand

…Report for 1970-1971 to National Oceanographic [i.e., Oceanic] and Atmospheric Agency [ie, Adminsitration], Office of Sea Grant Programs, Grant No. GH103, Project UNC-10. Chapel Hill, N.C.; Morehead City, N.C.: Institute…

Henry Ashby Rankin

…Henry Rankin, who had discovered the plant. Small’s description was published in Addisonia 13: 37-38. In 2006 Rankin’s granddaughters, Dorothy and Douglass Rankin, gave his papers to the Southern Historical…