Frances Ernestine Silliman

…Bridgewater College from 1944 -1946 and again from 1947-1953. (4) Bridgewater College ca. 1960 Photograph courtesy of Bridgewater College Special Collections Silliman earned a Masters degree in 1955 and a…

Enchantress along the Eno

…New Life. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/599831473/circe-gives-the-witch-of-the-odyssey-a-new-life accessed on 30 June 2021. The Confluence Natural Area is located at 4214 Highland Farm Road, Hillsborough, NC, and is open daily from dawn to dusk. It…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…Bush on their 50th wedding anniversary. Photo courtesy of Cathy Martin; Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53510949/benjamin-franklin-bush : accessed 06 December 2021), memorial page for Benjamin Franklin “Bf” Bush…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…USC for 30 years. The State [newspaper], 1 April 2015. Columbia, South Carolina. https://www.thestate.com/living/article17183867.html accessed on 13 January 2021. Photo by Bonnie Dutton. Herr, John M., Jr. 2012. In Memoriam:…

Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…1966 Lelong was among 35 “New Fulltime Faculty Members” of the University of South Alabama. His salary as an Assistant Professor of Biology was $7,000-$7,500, with a note that beginning…

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….

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…225-229.   SOURCES: SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on December 04. Anderson, Lewis E. (1965) In memoriam: Hugo Leander Blomquist 1885 [sic]-1964. The Bryologist 68(2): 251-254. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3241029…

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…(ALHFAM), and still uses her botanical text to identify plants growing in her neigborhood. (9) SOURCES: 1. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,…

Lichen Updates: new name and new county records

…Eaglenest Mountain (4925 feet; 35.4962070 latitude, -83.0431905 longitude) and adjacent North Eaglenest Mountain (5066 feet; 35.5002672 latitude, -83.0416956 longitude) are on Eaglenest Ridge, WSW of Lake Junaluska and NW of…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…herbaria curating Rev. Brinker’s specimens include the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH: bryophytes & vascular plants), Australian National Herbarium (CANB: bryophytes), Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT: bryophytes), California Academy…