James Heathman Horton

9 January 1931- 5 May 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged over 300 vascular plant specimens collected by James Heathman Horton. As we…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…F. Whigham, and John P. O’Neill. 2012. Limitations on orchid recruitment: not a simple picture. Molecular Ecology 21: 1511-1523. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05468.x https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2012_mccormick001.pdf Top photo: Aplectrum hyemale by Alan M. Cressler…

John Marshall Grant

…of naturalists who lay the foundation for the more spectacular work of the specialist. SOURCES: 1. John Marshall Grant. Find A Grave Memorial #133856997. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin//fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133856997 accessed on 11 January 2017….

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…

Charles Henry Hitchcock

…##### SOURCES: “About the Hitchcock Atlas: Who was Charles Hitchcock?” Text by Thelma Thompson, Government Documents Librarian, University of New Hampshire Library, August 20, 2002, revised January 16, 2008. https://www.library.unh.edu/find/digital/maps-atlases/about-hitchcock-atlas…

Madeline Palmer Burbanck

…In Memoriam: Madeline Palmer Burbanck. http://www.mbl.edu/obituaries/madeline-palmer-burbanck/ accessed on 5 April 2017. 2. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015….

Helen Shedd Sherwin

…and Leafspot on Soybeans in Maryland. Phytopathology 42(6): 342. SOURCES: 1. “Helen S. Yu, Garden Club President” Obituary, The Washington Post, 24 November 1990. Accessed on 23 June 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/11/24/author-roald-dahl-dies/0a2b6f8b-c4f0-4b42-8fd1-8493bcbd94f1/…

Paul Sackman Marx

…Degree. Paul continued his doctoral studies in Botany at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.”2 “Paul and I rented a house together in Hillsborough, North Carolina, for the…

Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory

…SOURCES: 1. Roznick, Betsy. 2021. Spend some time in Purgatory: Exploring the Zoo’s Purgatory Mountain. https://www.nczoo.org/blog/spend-some-time-purgatory-exploring-zoos-purgatory-mountain accessed on 19 Nov 2023. 2. Weakley, A.S., and Southeastern Flora Team. 2024. Flora…

Henrietta “Henny” Laing Chambers

…L. Chambers” on most of her professional publications. She earned her Ph.D. in 1961 at Yale University (Connecticut). The title of her doctoral thesis was “A cytotaxonomic study of the…