Orchids: Masters of Deception

…his first book after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin had used these nectar-producing tubes as examples of the precise adaptions of complex structures by natural selection. In this…

John Marshall Grant

…Jane Brown, was born in 1858 and died in 1934. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, they had six living children – among them Roy, Leslie, Vernon, Lloyd, Grace Gertrude…

Delzie Demaree

…for he had suffered a serious wound to a foot during action in France during World War I, and had been gassed during the same period of military service.2 He…

Judy Ann Tate Morgan

…SOURCES: 1. Ancestry.com. North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048….

John Robert Raper

…and training he desired, and feeling that he had been trapped by circumstances, did what he could to insure that his children obtain the education he had been denied. Mother’s…

Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery

…[coached] basketball for 20 years.” (4) Laura and Ralph had two daughters, Adora McGlamery Cloer (1939-1982), and Fannie McGlamery Watson.(4) Laura Jarrett McGlamery died at age 82 and is buried…

Richard Joel Reader

…Ecology doctoral thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   SOURCES: 1. Graduate Calendar 2002-2003. Botany. University of Guelph. https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/graduate/2002-2003/programs/bota.html accessed on 8 May 2023.        …

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…

Lillian E. Arnold

…724-740. 3. www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herbarium/flashist.htm accessed on 25 October, 2006. 4. Murrill, William A. 1940. Additions to the Florida fungi II. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 67(1): 57-66. 5. Fourteenth Census…

Wendell P. Smith

…Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Marriage Index, 1901-1955 and 1966-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Department…