John Robert Raper

…Press. — (1955) Heterokaryosis and sexuality in fungi. Trans. N.Y. Acad. Sci. (II), 17:627-35. Raper, John R., P. G. Miles and H. Lund (1956) The identification of indigo as a…

Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery

…in Oak Forest Cemetery in Hayesville, Clay County, North Carolina with her husband and youngest daughter.(1)   SOURCES Find A Grave Memorial ID: 18899410 “Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery”. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18899410/laura-ellen-mcglamery accessed…

Richard Joel Reader

Canada. He was Chair of the Botany Department at that institution in 2002-2003.   PUBLICATIONS (incomplete list): Hart, Miranda M. and Richard J. Reader. 2004. Do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi recover…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…Gray Card Index in the hallway in dark green drawers, I had to check whether this story was wholly apocryphal, but indeed, every drawer had a fine gray powder in…

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…Virginia’s political culture with the large number of university graduates in the state assembly, elites schooled in eugenics had a distinct advantage in affecting social policy. Thus, Virginia and its…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…found in US. Blue Ridge Three-lobed Coneflower, Rudbeckia rupestris Chick. was published in 1881 in Coult. Bot. Gaz.vi: 188. This plant is found in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and…

Harry E. Ahles

…ca. 1950, “On dividing road of Indiana and Illinois, Kankakee, background in Indiana” Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.,…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…importance of field studies in botany; she searched for plants throughout Kentucky, gathering data that she would later use in her books. In 1942, she discovered an unnamed species of…

Albert Commons

…an older half brother, Franklin Commons, who, while a student at the Academy in Unionville, in 1839, had purchased a copy of Darlington’s “Flora Cestrica,” and also had a tin…

Budd Elmon Smith

…support. New recruitment strategies were implemented that aimed to increase the student body from its tenuous level of about 400. In 1955, Dr. Smith interested Mr. Charles A. Cannon of…