Budd Elmon Smith

…Union County, North Carolina. Ethel Smith became the Head Librarian of the college library, and it was named in her honor on 23 January 1959.5, 6 Ethel K. Smith, spouse…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…Gray Card Index in the hallway in dark green drawers, I had to check whether this story was wholly apocryphal, but indeed, every drawer had a fine gray powder in…

Albert Commons

…an older half brother, Franklin Commons, who, while a student at the Academy in Unionville, in 1839, had purchased a copy of Darlington’s “Flora Cestrica,” and also had a tin…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

(12 June 1899 – 10 March 1991)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected or co-collected by Egbert Hamilton Walker,…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…a couple of brief teaching jobs she acquired a position at Georgetown College [in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky]. There she taught classes for almost 30 years and became head of…

Clifford R. Parks

…The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was “Floral pigmentation studies in the genus Gossypium” and his thesis advisor was Dr. Stanley George Stephens. In addition to studying Gossypium at North…

Charles Fuller Baker

…of tuberculosis had neither money nor friends to care for him. Baker took the money he had put aside for the trip and sent the lad to the mountains. For…

Richard Joel Reader

…Ecology doctoral thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   SOURCES: 1. Graduate Calendar 2002-2003. Botany. University of Guelph. https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/graduate/2002-2003/programs/bota.html accessed on 8 May 2023.        …

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…Order of Red Men.”4 On 12 August, 1912 Bellamy married Caroline Louise Mallett (1891-1978) of Etowah, Henderson County, North Carolina and together they had two children, Caroline Bellamy Varnau (?…

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…