Peter Edward “Ed” Bostick

…investigation of Chandler Mountain, St. Clair Co., Alabama. Castanea 32(3): 133-154. SOURCES: http://www.lib.unc.edu/biology/theses.html accessed on 30 December 2010 http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/oralhistories/Ed%20Bostick.pdf accessed on 30 December 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw_State_University accessed on 30 December 2010…

Carroll Emory Wood, Jr.

(13 January 1921 – 15 March 2009) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates at least 160 vascular plant specimens collected by C. E. Wood, Jr….

Percy H. Gentle

…curates about 200 of his vascular plant specimens (and at least 23 fungal specimens and 23 bryophytes). The Field Museum Herbarium (F) curates over 500 specimens collected by Gentle. Other…

Charles Wright

…National Science Foundation, all the mycological collections at NCU are searchable via www.mycoportal.org and our vascular plants are searchable via www.sernecportal.org Other herbaria that curate Charles Wright’s specimens include the…

Duane Francis Houck

(February 9, 1929 — July 21, 2003) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 170 specimens collected by Duane F. Houck. His specimens are…

Elam T. Bartholomew

…Science Foundation; a searchable database of those specimens can be found at www.mycoportal.org NCU also curates fungi collected by Elam Bartholomew’s son, Elbert Thomas Bartholomew (1878-1967), who usually signed his…

Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale

(25 October 1916 – 5 July 1981) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates very few specimens collected by Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale. Our vascular plant…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…credible and many women employees benefited. However, for Miriam, it meant a change of her life’s direction. Her energy now focused on the Women’s Movement. She became active in the…

Donald Culross Peattie

…Culross Peattie. Most specimens are from Polk County, North Carolina. As cataloging continues, no doubt more specimens he collected will be found. Other herbaria curating specimens collected by Peattie include…