The BGF Gets a New Name

…country to support a public garden, so a more descriptive name may have been deemed unnecessary at that time. But starting in the 1990s, the outside world started to change….

Samuel B. Jones, Jr.

…Rodora 89: 35-40. Jones, S. B. 1983. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of Georgia, The Friends of the Botanical Garden 12(1): 3-6. Jones, S. B. 1982. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…at the End of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy. I cannot actually recommend this book — I find myself skimming paragraphs just to get on with it — but I’ll…

Elbert Thomas Bartholomew

…by his colleagues, lunched daily in the open sunlit patio of the “Main Building” where there was animated conversation, among fellow scientists and visitors alike, concerning plant and world problems….

Bernard Carl Mikula

and served in the submarine services in the United States Navy during World War II. He earned his Bachelor Degree from the College of William & Mary in Williamburg, Virginia…

Alton McCaleb Harvill, Jr.

…He was preceded in death on January 29, 1988 by his devoted wife, Barbara Jean Hopkins Harvill, originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota… [Harvill] was born on November 20, 1916 in Russellville,…

Ferdinand Blanchard

…Blanchard’s specimens include Dudley Herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences (DS), University of Minnesota (MIN), Missouri Botanic Garden (MO), New York Botanical Garden (NY), and United States National Herbarium…

Juliet Faunteroy

…“Avoca,” an American Queen Anne-style house built in 1901 that is now a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It currently houses the Avoca…

Donald Culross Peattie

…now owned by the Glenview Park District, and is a National Historic Landmark. From 1928 to 1933, the Peatties and their three sons lived in France. The family settled at…