Albert Commons

…is likely additional specimens will be found. NCU’s vascular plants can be searched at www.sernecportal.org NCU curates only about 40 fungal specimens collected by Commons, and most of these were…

Budd Elmon Smith

(9 February 1910 – 5 August 1976) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 850 vascular plant specimens, 10 fungal specimens, and 1 lichen specimen…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…on the White House roof to protect the president.””   SOURCE: Sullivan, Patricia. 2006. Obituary: Frederick Meyer, 88. The Washington Post. November 14, 2006. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/11/14/frederick-meyer-88/5079af3c-74b9-43c8-a02f-e352f18513e1/ accessed on 13 December 2022….

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….

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…Bush on their 50th wedding anniversary. Photo courtesy of Cathy Martin; Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53510949/benjamin-franklin-bush : accessed 06 December 2021), memorial page for Benjamin Franklin “Bf” Bush…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…purpose of collecting alpine plant specimens. 10 It is interesting that Edward S. Morse, curator of PSNH ca. 1866, went on to become the director of the Peabody Museum at…

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…

Enchantress along the Eno

…New Life. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/599831473/circe-gives-the-witch-of-the-odyssey-a-new-life accessed on 30 June 2021. The Confluence Natural Area is located at 4214 Highland Farm Road, Hillsborough, NC, and is open daily from dawn to dusk. It…

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,…