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…

Andrew Harvey Young

…Young. The photo (above) of Dr. Young was taken ca. 1890-1910 by George William Allison (courtesy of the Duggan Library Photo Archive, Hanover College). In addition to NCU other herbaria…

William Battle Cobb

…1915 [Collier] Cobb had used a portion of Mary Know Gatlin Cobb’s dowry to purchase land and build houses on Cobb Terrace [35.917169 latitude, -79.054471 longitude in downtown Chapel Hill]…”5…

Dr. Elizabeth Henry Bellmer, S. N. D.

…small episode of the 19th century Darwinian debate. Annals of Science 56: 25-45. Resume, Elizabeth H. Bellmer. Archives, Trinity University, Washington, D. C. Obituary “Elizabeth Bellmer” The Washington Post. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/elizabeth-bellmer-obituary?id=5613615…

Robert M. Downs

…Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. 5. tributesNH; Publication Place: City, New Hampshire, USA; URL: http://www.shellyfuneralhomes.com/book-of-memories/2706151/Learn-Betty/service-details.php. Ancestry.com. U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT,…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…studied medicine at the Berkshire Medical Institution in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a school which was founded in 1821 and had its last commencement in 1867. He graduated from this school in…

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 (?…

Charles Edward Raynal

…year to show two known locations of the plant to Dr. William Chambers Coker, head of the Botany Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Raynal also sent…

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…