March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots

…dealbata) is a species of tree fern endemic to New Zealand. While the New Zealand national men’s rugby, soccer, basketball, men’s cricket, field hockey, sailing, and football teams all sport…

Louis Hermann Pammel

…1901. Rare plants and their disappearance. The Plant World 4(8): 151-152. —–. 1902. Our vanishing wildflowers. The Plant World 5(9): 173-175. —–. 1902. Review of “Garden beans cultivated as esculents”…

William McCally Pollock

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards…

Gerald McCarthy

…of the United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), later presenting to that organization more than 4,000 plant specimens collected by him (U.S. National Museum, 1890, pp. 69, 72, 192, 764)….

Edward Willis Graves

…4. Ancestry.com World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Serive…

Ellsworth Bethel

rust might be native. Upon this conclusion rests the value of the fall campaign against the white pine blister rust. Bethel’s knowledge of the rusts of the Rocky Mountain region,…

Joseph Austin Holmes

Today, selected specimens of North Carolina plants collected by Holmes are archived at the UNC Herbarium, examples being Lycopodium alopecuroides (L.) Cranfill and Woodwardia areolata, both collected in Duplin County,…

Eugène Poilane

…herbaria curating Poilane’s specimens include Harvard University Herbaria (A), Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B), National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR), Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (DAO), Royal Botanic Garden…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…Carolina College for Women World War II Enlistment Records: National Archives and Records Administration. Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 [Archival Database]; ARC: 1263923. World War II Army Enlistment…

Charles Ferson Durant

…holding Durant’s book on algae include University of Maryland (College Park, MD), Ohio State University Libraries (Columbus, OH), Princeton University Library (Princeton, NJ), Rutgers University Libraries (Piscataway, NJ), The Newark…