Mary Williams Ward Shanor

…in Wallace, Duplin County, North Carolina. PUBLICATIONS: Ward, Mary Williams (1939) Studies in aquatic fungi: I. Observations on a new species of Thraustotheca; II. Observations on Rhizophlyctis rosea (deBary &…

Andrew Harvey Young

…curating A. H. Young’s specimens include the Field Museum (F), Indiana University (IND), University of Michigan (MICH), University of Notre Dame (ND), New York Botanical Garden (NY, which incorporated DPU…

William Battle Cobb

…was known as an innovator in the field of soil science. “The greatest time-saver in soil survey field work was introduced in North Carolina in 1920. W. B. Cobb and…

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

…mid-1960’s. In 1969 she published “Distribution, variation and chromosome number in the Appalachian shale barren endemic Eriogonum allenii Watson” in Biological Studies #132. The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C….

Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

…his/her initials and assumes that 100 years later I will know who H.R.T. is (pointing at you, Dr. Henry Roland Totten), and sometimes the locality information is difficult to interpret….

Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr

…that culminated in weekend-long camping trips to identify the flowers of the region. In 1986 [she] received the first “Excellence in Teaching Award” from Western Piedmont Community College and [in…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…of communication. It was (1) inevitably noisy, and it would (2) never evolve to avoid the possibility of deception. Last May, about the time I had become thoroughly discouraged by…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…its character, Mr. Bellamy being equally at home in all branches of the vocation… His fraternal connections include membership in the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and in the Improved…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…married to Robert B. Tindall, a pioneer florist who built and operated the first greenhouse in Independence. And young Bush’s early interest in plants was no doubt due in some…

Wendell P. Smith

…asked how he had adjusted to the Yadkin River Valley after a lifetime in the Connecticut River Valley in Vermont. “There isn’t a lot of difference,” Wendell replied. “Nature is…