Search Herbarium Specimens

…Earth. SERNEC links it efforts with those of other regional herbarium consortia and with the National Resource for Advancing Ditigitzation of Biodiversity Collections, iDigBio. Search NCU Specimens Search All Specimens…

The Backstory of Little Sweet Betsy

…bundled “Al Radford style” in folds of newspaper secured with rubber bands and watered before carefully placed in the big rubber collecting bags. Next day I planted them at the…

Augustin Gattinger

…of Mr. Shuttleworth, of England. Senecio rugelia Gray, Plantago rugellii Decaisne, Siphonychia rugelii Chapm. commemorate his name. My collections were in much request for exchange, as they contained many novelties…

The Bees Are Back!

USA, Certified Beekeeper, Anne Cabell, introduced the crowd to CCCG’s new friends in the hive. The crowd had the opportunity to get answers to all of the questions buzzing around…

Herbert Spencer Jackson

…was recognized as a world authority on the rust and smut fungi, and to our knowledge of these groups he contributed thirty-one journal articles. In the Toronto area Professor Jackson…

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…Gray Herbarium (GH), New York Botanical Garden (NY), University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TENN), and the United States National Herbarium (US). Evelyn and Samuel Bain had six sons: Webster (b. ca….

Emma Lewis Lipps

…ecological resource. To quote Dr. Lipps in reference to Marshall Forest, “it will provide answers to questions we are not yet able to ask.” In 1979, the National Council of…

Seraph A. Bliss

…on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives &…

Carnivorous Conservation

…plant, it’s an opportunity to live a little longer in a habitat nearly barren of nutrients. The Venus flytrap, and carnivorous plants like them, are oddities of the plant world….