NCBGF Spring Board Meeting

NCBGF Spring Board Meeting Friday, May 19, 2023; 10 a.m.-12 p.m. In Person: NCBG, Joslin Classroom 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill Join Online: https://unc.zoom.us/j/96224374906 Join by Phone: Dial:…

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…loyal pupils. He believed in teaching Botany as a pure science, believing that the practical application of the subject would take care of itself. As he had never had a…

Harry E. Ahles

…ca. 1950, “On dividing road of Indiana and Illinois, Kankakee, background in Indiana” Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.,…

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…

Paul Sackman Marx

…our classmate, Phillip Rury, Paul did lots of chromosome squashes on that genus. He became an avid kyaker. To my knowledge Paul did not complete his Ph.D., but instead went…

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….

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…

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,…

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…