Bernard Carl Mikula

…Expression in Maize.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 47 (4): 566–71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/70662. Mikula, Bernard Carl. 1956. Variation in Sorghum vulgare var. drummondii…

Seraph A. Bliss

…grandfather, Isaac Bliss, Sr.5 NCU curates approximately 2,555 fungal specimens collected by Arthur Bliss Seymour.   SOURCES: 1. Seraph A. Bemis Bliss. Find A Grave memorial # 179557302. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179557302/seraph-a-bliss accessed…

Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale

…in the Department of Antibiotic Research of the Upjohn Company at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Cycloheximide (actidione), an antifungal agent (synthesized by Streptomyces griseus) discovered by Alma Whiffen in the mid-1940’s, has…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…uncovered rampant discrimination and sexual harassment throughout her branch. With that, Miriam made the life-changing decision to bring a class action complaint against the government. The EEOC found the complaint…

A Toast to Polk County, Galax, and Bigleaf Scurfpea

…with the University of Washington Herbarium (WTU) collection and other Pacific Northwest collections) on the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria website ( https://www.pnwherbaria.org/data/search.php ). Doing a quick search, there are…

Peter Edward “Ed” Bostick

…investigation of Chandler Mountain, St. Clair Co., Alabama. Castanea 32(3): 133-154. SOURCES: http://www.lib.unc.edu/biology/theses.html accessed on 30 December 2010 http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/oralhistories/Ed%20Bostick.pdf accessed on 30 December 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw_State_University accessed on 30 December 2010…

George Shuford Ramseur

…SOURCES: 1. ‘George Shufford [sic] Ramseur’ Register of Deeds. North Carolina Birth Indexes. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina State Archives. Microfilm. Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Birth Indexes, 1800-2000 [database on-line]. Provo,…

Percy H. Gentle

…Cruz; and, notwithstanding the intensive collections made in Costa Rica in recent years, nothing answering to the original description was discovered until 1936 when Alexander F. Skutch found specimens in…

Emma Lewis Lipps

…R. De Selm. 1969. The vascular flora of the Marshall Forest, Rome, Georgia. Castanea 34 (4): 414-432. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032588 SOURCES: 1. SERNEC Data Portal. 2022. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on May 31. 2….

Mildred Gant Stites Reed

…images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166184436/mildred-gant-reed : accessed 12 September 2021), memorial page for Mildred Gant Stites Reed (9 Jan 1912–Jun 1967), Find a Grave Memorial ID 166184436, citing Greenmount Cemetery, Durango, La Plata…