Henrietta “Henny” Laing Chambers

…her advisor was Dr. Al Radford. In 1958 she married Kenton Lee Chambers and went from usually signing herbarium labels as “Henrietta Laing” to “H. L. Chambers”. She used “Henrietta…

Rassie Everton Wicker

…he gave to Dr. William Chambers Coker in 1930 still grows in the Coker Arboretum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most of Wicker’s herbarium specimens were…

Land Acknowledgement

…the Carolinas during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. Website of Dr. Stephen Davis, Associate Director & Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina…

Clinton Osborne Houghton

…on 8 March 2021. 2. Houghton, Clinton Osborne. Find A Grave Memorial # 135421565. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135421565/clinton-osborne-houghton 3. University of Delaware. Blue Hen Yearbook, 1933, page 36. https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/5957 accessed on 8 March…

Further Afield: Skunk Alert at Lake Townsend

…Phoridae [coffin flies6], Drosophilidae [fruit flies], Chloropidae [grass flies7], and Anthomyiidae [root-maggots8].” 2 A good project for a budding pollination ecologist would be to discover what insects pollinate skunk cabbage…

Arthur Oliver Tucker, III

…O., Michael J. Maciarello and Ben H. Alkire (2001) Essential oil of Aeollanthus suaveolens Mart ex Spring. (Lamiaceae). Journal of Essential Oil Research 13 (3): 198-199. Sources: https://www.pippinfuneralhome.com/notices/Arthur-TuckerIII?fbclid=IwAR0-Z9JEqnWCg31iYCTTPHooLmaKIDtJpdU4I7vJ0zzNbN9C3usJ0L7x5ss accessed on…

Douglas Dwight Sharp

…collected for his Master’s thesis, “The phytosociology of the weed communities of Scotland County, North Carolina” which he completed in 1974 with advisor Dr. Helmut Leith in the University of…

Charles Fuller Baker

…and it is still ably conducted by Dr. Hilton. In October 1911 the appointment of Prof. Cook as Horticultural Commissioner of California broke the magic ring of activities at Pomona….

Ken E. Rogers

…unfamiliar grass. Perhaps intuitively, enough material was collected for several herbarium specimens… Dr. Thomas R. Soderstrom, Curator of Grasses at the United States National Museum, after examining my material and…