Orchids: Masters of Deception

…his first book after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin had used these nectar-producing tubes as examples of the precise adaptions of complex structures by natural selection. In this…

John Marshall Grant

…Jane Brown, was born in 1858 and died in 1934. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, they had six living children – among them Roy, Leslie, Vernon, Lloyd, Grace Gertrude…

Delzie Demaree

…for he had suffered a serious wound to a foot during action in France during World War I, and had been gassed during the same period of military service.2 He…

Paul Sackman Marx

…Degree. Paul continued his doctoral studies in Botany at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.”2 “Paul and I rented a house together in Hillsborough, North Carolina, for the…

Judy Ann Tate Morgan

…Carolina, Columbia (USCH).3 She continued her studies with Dr. Radford and earned a Ph.D. in 1967. The title of her doctoral thesis was “A taxonomic study of the genus Boltonia“.2…

John Robert Raper

…and training he desired, and feeling that he had been trapped by circumstances, did what he could to insure that his children obtain the education he had been denied. Mother’s…

Madeline Palmer Burbanck

…In Memoriam: Madeline Palmer Burbanck. http://www.mbl.edu/obituaries/madeline-palmer-burbanck/ accessed on 5 April 2017. 2. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015….

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…Auk 56(4): 472-474. McIlhenny, E. A. 1939. An unusual migration of Broad-winged Hawks. The Auk 56(2): 182-183. McIlhenny, E. A. 1938. Whooping Crane in Louisiana. Auk 55: 670. McIlhenny, E….

Clinton Osborne Houghton

…the Newark City Directory, both father and son lived in the same residence at 227 W. Main Street in Newark. By 1961, however, they had moved to 111 Cheltenham Road,