Frances Ernestine Silliman

…Photograph Collection In 1928, Frances is listed in the city directory as a student residing in Sanford Hall at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. (6) She graduated from the…

Enchantress along the Eno

…when it is in bloom, and we must have chosen its peak bloom day by chance. It is not a rare plant in the Piedmont of North Carolina, but all…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…married to Robert B. Tindall, a pioneer florist who built and operated the first greenhouse in Independence. And young Bush’s early interest in plants was no doubt due in some…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…University. Dr. Batson entered the U.S. Navy during World War II. In 1948 he entered Duke University, receiving a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Botany. Dr. Batson taught botany and…

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….

Paul Sackman Marx

…University (VSC), Western Illinois University (MWI), and William & Mary (WILLI). Herbaria curating large numbers of Marx’ specimens include University of Louisiana at Monroe (NLU; transferred to BRIT in 2017),…

Clinton Osborne Houghton

…of the American Association of Economic Entomology, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Theta Chi fraternity, and the Gamma Alpha Science Society. He was also an active member of the Newark…

Lillian E. Arnold

…West, and they co-authored The Native Trees of Florida in 1946. Ms. Arnold collected the type specimen of a fungus and it was named in her honor in 1940 (4):…

Philip French-Carson Greear

…in 1942. He soon transferred into the newly formed U.S. Air Force, in Biloxi, Mississippi. There he met Mildred White, a young teacher who taught at Gulfport High School. They…