William Battle Cobb
…was known as an innovator in the field of soil science. “The greatest time-saver in soil survey field work was introduced in North Carolina in 1920. W. B. Cobb and…
…was known as an innovator in the field of soil science. “The greatest time-saver in soil survey field work was introduced in North Carolina in 1920. W. B. Cobb and…
…curating A. H. Young’s specimens include the Field Museum (F), Indiana University (IND), University of Michigan (MICH), University of Notre Dame (ND), New York Botanical Garden (NY, which incorporated DPU…
…on 32 acres in Dover, New Hampshire, when the boys were in their early youth. The first documentation of Albion’s interest in plant life is found in excerpts from a…
…ridges! It is widespread in sandhills forests, though normally not in deep sands. For example, at Hemlock Bluffs in Wake County, it grows on steep bluffs “in place of” Mountain…
…the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill that I became interested in botany. I had just finished my Master’s degree at UNC, and for my thesis I had…
…in 1942. He soon transferred into the newly formed U.S. Air Force, in Biloxi, Mississippi. There he met Mildred White, a young teacher who taught at Gulfport High School. They…
…in the mid-1980s. In this garden, we grow plants used for medicine, ceremonies, and everyday living by Native Americans in the southeast. In 2001, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian…
…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…
…in the Piedmont of North Carolina, as I would imagine that there are substantial differences in the insects present in North Carolina and Québec. In 2011, my husband and I…
…book now in its third printing. All are available from the Moore County Historical Association.”(1) “He frequently took interested persons on long hikes to points of interest in the Sandhills,…