Frederick Gustav Meyer

…signed annotation labels. The title of Meyer’s 1949 doctoral thesis at the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University was “The genus Valeriana in North America and the West…

Clifford R. Parks

…USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/606154048/?article=41c34f0d-53e9-433a-a53c-2eceda363e25/4f61241f-d62c-43a5-b1ea-3e18d24fd8a3&focus=0.27969596,0.84042877,0.5112509,0.96954286&xid=3398. Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2020. 9. Obituary of Kai Mei Parks, 2015. https://walkersfuneralservice.com/tribute/details/1039/Kai-Parks/obituary.html accessed 18 January 2021….

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…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…White Chickering. Find A Grave Memorial #38919887. Accessed on 23 November 2106. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38919887 13. SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on February 07. 14. Proceedings of the Section of Economic…

Donald Culross Peattie

…and uselessness — of local floras. Castanea 11(2): 63-65.   Sources: Peter Friederici (2000) Donald Culross Peattie: Remembering an Early Prophet in Chicago Wilderness. Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Fall 2000. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chicagowilderness.org/resource/collection/0625B160-07C5-482A-8BDF-D86381B9FC77/2000-Fall.pdf…

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…

John Robert Raper

…of Sciences, Washington, D.C. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/raper-john.pdf. 2. 1958 John R. Raper Dope Sheet ’33 Yackety Yack Revisited. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Records. 3. Williams, Dudley (1974) Memorandum…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…F. Whigham, and John P. O’Neill. 2012. Limitations on orchid recruitment: not a simple picture. Molecular Ecology 21: 1511-1523. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05468.x https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2012_mccormick001.pdf Top photo: Aplectrum hyemale by Alan M. Cressler…

Delzie Demaree

…title of his doctoral thesis was “The water relations of Aesculus californica (Spach) Nuttall. Demaree married Catherine Finch Lane (1896-1961) on 2 October 1920 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.6 They…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…herbaria curating Rev. Brinker’s specimens include the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH: bryophytes & vascular plants), Australian National Herbarium (CANB: bryophytes), Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT: bryophytes), California Academy…