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…

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…

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…

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…Find A Grave Memorial # 83056299. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83056299/ivey-foreman-lewis accessed on 20 January 2021 Special thanks to Bill Burk, retired librarian, Couch Library, Botany Section, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill….

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…

Harry E. Ahles

…2015. Poughkeepsie Journal; Publication Date: 25/ Mar/ 1981; Publication Place: Poughkeepsie, New York, United States of America; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/114409396/?article=4ec0a0f1-3206-48b9-bb0f-4eff5d65e101&focus=0.66744065,0.3595154,0.97915316,0.4064448&xid=2378. Ancestry.com. Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…her family’s garden. From her grandmother she learned the parts of a flower, beginning an interest in plants that carried on throughout her life. At the University of Kentucky, Wharton…

Albert Commons

…signed his specimen labels “A. Commons” or “A.C.”. Most specimens curated at NCU are from Delaware, particularly New Castle County. As we continue to catalog our vascular plant collection it…

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…