Frances Ernestine Silliman

Dr. Silliman returned to Bridgewater College and taught in the Biology Department from 1958-1973. (4) “Her influence on our department runs deep,” says Dr. Edgar Lickey, Curator of the Bridgewater…

Donald Culross Peattie

…and uselessness — of local floras. Castanea 11(2): 63-65.   Sources: Peter Friederici (2000) Donald Culross Peattie: Remembering an Early Prophet in Chicago Wilderness. Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Fall 2000. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chicagowilderness.org/resource/collection/0625B160-07C5-482A-8BDF-D86381B9FC77/2000-Fall.pdf…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…of New England. They included the Hon. Ether Shepley, Rev. John White Chickering, Edward Gould, John Neal, Dr. Jesse Wedgwood Mighels (pronounced “Miles”), Henry Quincy, Dr. William Wood, and Dr….

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….

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…University of Virginia in 1915… For thirty-eight years, from 1915 until 1953, [University of] Virginia students studied eugenics with… Dr. Ivey Foreman Lewis. As Miller Professor of Biology and Dean…

Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery

…in Oak Forest Cemetery in Hayesville, Clay County, North Carolina with her husband and youngest daughter.(1)   SOURCES Find A Grave Memorial ID: 18899410 “Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery”. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18899410/laura-ellen-mcglamery accessed…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…He had Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Meyer was considered one of the nation’s best taxonomists in identifying cultivated plants, and he researched plants around the world. His main interest was in…

Willard Webster Eggleston

…Agricultural Research. [full citation needed; possibly October 1930 issue] Eggleston, W.W. (?) Dr. Ezra Brainerd. [incomplete citation] — (?) Dr. Joseph Whitney Barstow. [incomplete citation] — (?) Alphonso Wood’s description…

Budd Elmon Smith

…collected by Dr. Budd Elmon Smith. As we continue to catalog our collections it is likely that more specimens collected by him will be found. He collected throughout North Carolina…

Albert Commons

…explored habitats he described as “sandy swamps,” “ponds,” “wet sand,” “pine barrens,” “bogs,” “wet places,’ “dry sand,” and “dry woods.” On this day he collected 19 species, in addition to…