Egbert Hamilton Walker

…NCU’s specimens collected by Walker are from the environs of the District of Columbia and from North Carolina (particularly Polk County). It seems likely that his collecting activities in Polk…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…Year Award; 1976, Education Conservationist of the Year by South Carolina Wildlife Federation; 1982, Order of the Palmetto Award presented by Governor Richard Riley who hosted his Retirement Party at…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…he also recalled the great abundance of prairie hens, and the Carolina paroquets [Conuropsis carolinensis] that sat on stumps in the recent clearing, and were so tame or so stupid…

Enchantress along the Eno

…County, NC, 27 June 2021 A plant I particularly enjoy seeing at the Confluence is Circaea canadensis, “Enchanter’s-nightshade.” We’ve usually found Circaea in several spots along the 1.75 mile-long Two…

Frances Ernestine Silliman

…Bridgewater College from 1944 -1946 and again from 1947-1953. (4) Bridgewater College ca. 1960 Photograph courtesy of Bridgewater College Special Collections Silliman earned a Masters degree in 1955 and a…

Donald Culross Peattie

…in Polk County, North Carolina, ad Adjacent Parts of South Carolina, in Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. Part II. Cat-tail Family to Orchid Family (Typhaceae to Orchidaceae) and Part III. Willow…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…was talking about — and he was extremely pleasant to work with, a very kindly and generous person.” He lived in a Takoma Park house built in 1887 that had…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…Mr. Stearn’s schoolhouse on Free Street for the purpose of organizing an investigative society to study Nature. Those in attendance were already well known in Maine and in other parts…

Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…1966 Lelong was among 35 “New Fulltime Faculty Members” of the University of South Alabama. His salary as an Assistant Professor of Biology was $7,000-$7,500, with a note that beginning…

Clifford R. Parks

…USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/606154048/?article=41c34f0d-53e9-433a-a53c-2eceda363e25/4f61241f-d62c-43a5-b1ea-3e18d24fd8a3&focus=0.27969596,0.84042877,0.5112509,0.96954286&xid=3398. Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2020. 9. Obituary of Kai Mei Parks, 2015. https://walkersfuneralservice.com/tribute/details/1039/Kai-Parks/obituary.html accessed 18 January 2021….