Kenneth Bryan Raper

…Leading Microbiologists doing Research at Chapel Hill. Press Release 3/4/74 (838): Science News, University News Bureau, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Alumni Records Office, University of North…

Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures

…and editor Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods and Fruit 2016 Thomas Rainer, landscape architect and author Planting Design in a Post-Wild World 2015 Doug Tallamy,…

Abram Paschal Garber

…New York Botanical Garden (NY), North Carolina State University (NCSC), Purdue University (PUR; fungi), Putnam Museum & Science Center (BDI), Rutgers University (CHRB), Tulane University (NO), University of Florida (FLAS),…

Walking with Walter and William

…(or others) at Thomas Walter’s grave. In 2017, Herbarium Intern Hannah Medford systematically went through the Herbarium searching for specimens which Coker collected at or near the location. The guide…

Alpheus Wesley Blizzard

search of sernecportal.org in October, 2022 revealed that the University of Minnestoa (MIN) is the only other herbarium curating specimens collected by Blizzard. MIN’s single specimen was also collected in…

NCBGF Officers and Directors

…& Research ICF Certified, Life and Corporate Coaching, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching As a CEO Coach, Mentor and Advisor at Vistage Worldwide, Inc. Niels helps people who run…

Mordecai Elisha Hyams

…through blockade runners.”1 Hyams was discharged from the Confederate Army on 20 April 1862 in Yorktown, Virginia. Hyams not only never returned to Florida, but also changed careers to botany….

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…for research. Showed us some ferns that have never been mounted that are still layered in the original newspapers… and the seed collection that I didn’t even know he had,…

Ellsworth Bethel

…3. Mycoportal.org searched on 29 August 2017. 4. Lichenportal.org searched on 29 August 2017. 5. Bryophyteportal.org searched on 29 August 2017. 6. Macroalgae.org searched on 29 August 2017. 7. Ancestry.com….

Francis Stuart Chapman

…The 1930 US census has Stuart Chapman still living in Winston-Salem, but now his occupation is listed as “Proprietor, News Dealer; Industry: Newspaper Stand.” (9) Chapman collected only sporadically in…