Ernest Gibbes Patton

…on higher plants.” The title of his doctoral thesis at Duke University was “The development of white pine forest and soil on abandoned farm lands in the North Carolina Blue…

Delzie Demaree

…title of his doctoral thesis was “The water relations of Aesculus californica (Spach) Nuttall. Demaree married Catherine Finch Lane (1896-1961) on 2 October 1920 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.6 They…

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…(ALHFAM), and still uses her botanical text to identify plants growing in her neigborhood. (9) SOURCES: 1. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…with other expressions, of similar import, show that they are not insensible to the superior advantages which we enjoy; nor are their minds so stupefied our moulded by prejudice or…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…“Bellamy Mansion.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 16 Feb. 2021. Web. 10 May. 2022. “Chesley Calhoun Bellamy” Find A Grave. Accessed on 21 October 2015. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115160358/chesley-calhoun-bellamy Pers….

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…USC for 30 years. The State [newspaper], 1 April 2015. Columbia, South Carolina. https://www.thestate.com/living/article17183867.html accessed on 13 January 2021. Photo by Bonnie Dutton. Herr, John M., Jr. 2012. In Memoriam:…

Charles Edward Raynal

…State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1976 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Accessed on 23 July, 2020. 3. Find A Grave Memorial…

Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

…and the plants thereof. 2. Hollow Rock Master Plan Committee. 2009. Hollow Rock Access Area to the New Hope Preserve: Proposed Master Plan. https://www.dconc.gov/home/showdocument?id=13567 accessed on 14 November 2020 3….

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…F. Whigham, and John P. O’Neill. 2012. Limitations on orchid recruitment: not a simple picture. Molecular Ecology 21: 1511-1523. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05468.x https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2012_mccormick001.pdf Top photo: Aplectrum hyemale by Alan M. Cressler…

John Marshall Grant

…of naturalists who lay the foundation for the more spectacular work of the specialist. SOURCES: 1. John Marshall Grant. Find A Grave Memorial #133856997. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin//fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133856997 accessed on 11 January 2017….