Charles Henry Hitchcock

…Dartmouth College as a gift in 2002. It seems likely that Hitchcock and Barrows botanized together during family visits. Hitchcock seems to have been interested in a wide variety of…

Charles Norman Horn

…in Fairfax, Virginia and earned a B. S. in Biology from George Mason University in 1978. He earned a M.S. in Environmental Biology from The Ohio State University in Columbus,…

Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lectures

…Conservation in the 21st Century 2018 John Harris, director, Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce University In the Footsteps of Spring: Retracing Naturalists Edwin Way Teale…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…investigate UNC’s discriminatory practices in wages, hiring and admission. This investigation resulted in positive changes for female students, faculty and employees. In 1980 she was inducted into the Order of…

Duane Francis Houck

…Iowa State University in 1973. Duane Francis Houck taught at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee for 21 years. Photograph courtesy of Alumni Relations, Southern Adventist University Houck taught in…

Carnivorous Conservation

…North Carolina’s humid swamplands, a predator lies in wait. It’s perfectly still. It doesn’t breathe. It hasn’t had a meal in almost a month, but patience goes a long way…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…yet, the Pileated Woodpecker has survived in numbers, extended its range, and is in no danger of exterminations, while the Ivory-bill has gradually disappeared, until now it is practically exterminated….

George Andrew Christenberry

…“A taxonomic study of the Mucorales in the southeastern United States”. Pilobolus crystallinus in the fungi order Mucorales Image was created by Sava Krstic at Mushroom Observer   Published in…

John R. Bozeman

…John’s real interest was in ecology.(1) “In the spring semester of 1968, Steve Leonard took over as Curator,” says Bozeman, “and I served as an instructor, teaching an undergraduate course…

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…