Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…collected from the Gulf Islands National Seashore in Gulf Breeze, Florida. As we have never had tree cores in our collection, I asked for more details – what species of…

Annual Membership Meeting 2023

Annual NCBGF Membership Meeting Friday, November 17, 2023 1 – 2 p.m. Virtual, Zoom Join online: https://unc.zoom.us/s/92157457373 Join by phone: 1-305-224-1968 Enter Meeting ID: 921 5745 7373 Membership Meeting (Virtual…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

(12 June 1899 – 10 March 1991)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected or co-collected by Egbert Hamilton Walker,…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…of South Carolina] faculty member, and department head, member of the SC Hall of Science and Technology, and beloved biology professor and mentor to hundreds of practicing scientists and teachers….

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…he long resided, familiar to botanists almost throughout the world. Western Missouri was a frontier country at the close of the Civil War, and nowhere had gorilla [sic; guerilla] warfare…

Enchantress along the Eno

…New Life. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/599831473/circe-gives-the-witch-of-the-odyssey-a-new-life accessed on 30 June 2021. The Confluence Natural Area is located at 4214 Highland Farm Road, Hillsborough, NC, and is open daily from dawn to dusk. It…

Frances Ernestine Silliman

…University of Minnesota, College of Education with a Bachelors of Science in June, 1928. (8) Frances Silliman had a long association with Bridgewater College in Virginia. She taught Biology at…

Madeline Palmer Burbanck

…In Memoriam: Madeline Palmer Burbanck. http://www.mbl.edu/obituaries/madeline-palmer-burbanck/ accessed on 5 April 2017. 2. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015….

Donald Culross Peattie

…Annotated List of the Plants Growing Spontaneously in Polk County, North Carolina, ad Adjacent Parts of South Carolina, in Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. Part I. Introduction: Soils, Cilmate, Etc., Ferns…