Charles Fuller Baker

…Baker’s grand-nephew. main insect collection was bequeathed to the U.S. National Museum. The statement that small parts were also donated to the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, and…

Robert M. Downs

…Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. 5. tributesNH; Publication Place: City, New Hampshire, USA; URL: http://www.shellyfuneralhomes.com/book-of-memories/2706151/Learn-Betty/service-details.php. Ancestry.com. U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT,…

Albion Reed Hodgdon

…Galapagos Islands. He had a particular interest in the taxonomy of Rubus and the floristics and phytogeography of coastal Maine and eastern Canada. Dr. Hodgdon oversaw the integration of several…

Henrietta “Henny” Laing Chambers

…Sampson County, North Carolina in the spring of 1957. As part of her graduate work she annotated many specimens of Pycnanthemum collected by others. Henrietta Laing grew up in New…

Rassie Everton Wicker

…Katharine S. 1996. Wicker, Rassie Everton. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell. Copyright ©1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/wicker-rassie-everton accessed on…

Land Acknowledgement

…to recognize the Indigenous past, present, and future of a particular location and to understand our own place within that relationship (Native Governance Center1).” Equally important to acknowledgement is taking…

Clinton Osborne Houghton

…and is buried in Gracelawn Memorial Park in New Castle County, Delaware. SOURCES: 1. Siegel, Arthur. 1998. Clinton Osborne Houghton Diaries. Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library. https://library.udel.edu/special/findaids/data/pdf/mss0376.pdf accessed…

Further Afield: Skunk Alert at Lake Townsend

…Anne Melyn. 2011. Down Along the Haw: The History of a North Carolina River. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc. “Lake Townsend” City of Greensboro. https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/parks-recreation/the-lakes/lake-townsend accessed 27 February 2022….

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…