Egbert Hamilton Walker

…Egbert responded to a notice in the university newspaper that led to a position as a secondary school teacher in biology at Canton Christian College, later Lingnan University, in China……

Carnivorous Conservation

…plant, it’s an opportunity to live a little longer in a habitat nearly barren of nutrients. The Venus flytrap, and carnivorous plants like them, are oddities of the plant world….

Walter Lane Barksdale

…Service System, 147; Box: 18. Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. 2. North Carolina Deaths, 1997-2004. North…

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….

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…include those of Meijer [Meijer, W. (1992) Mary Wharton. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter 7(1): 2-3] and Wieland [Wieland, C. (1992) Mary Eugenia Wharton, 1912-1991. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter…

Philip French-Carson Greear

…married on June 4, 1943. While Philip was in military training, they moved their residency to Helen, Georgia, to be near his parents. Philip was stationed in Japan post World

Dear Friends of the Herbarium,

…hotspot,” a classification of world vegetation formations, taxonomic revi- sions of various genera of southeastern U.S. flowering plants, and descrip- tions of new species. Private support from Herbarium friends like…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…in Deering, North Dakota. After a year of graduate work at the University of Chicago, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a musician first class during World