Frederick Gustav Meyer

…He had Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Meyer was considered one of the nation’s best taxonomists in identifying cultivated plants, and he researched plants around the world. His main interest was in…

Clifford R. Parks

…The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was “Floral pigmentation studies in the genus Gossypium” and his thesis advisor was Dr. Stanley George Stephens. In addition to studying Gossypium at North…

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…

Edwin Huey Bullington

…gravel road from West Fork (Washington County) to Devil’s Den… The CCC also built the first hiking trails in the park, as well as a stone dam on Lee Creek,…

Charles Henry Hitchcock

…his wife, Orra White. This mother had such classical learning and scientific and artistic talent that “she could read the Greek Testament and calculate eclipses”… [Charles] completed the classical and…

Charles Edward Raynal

…year to show two known locations of the plant to Dr. William Chambers Coker, head of the Botany Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Raynal also sent…

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,…

Dr. Elizabeth Henry Bellmer, S. N. D.

…small episode of the 19th century Darwinian debate. Annals of Science 56: 25-45. Resume, Elizabeth H. Bellmer. Archives, Trinity University, Washington, D. C. Obituary “Elizabeth Bellmer” The Washington Post. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/elizabeth-bellmer-obituary?id=5613615…