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…

Arthur Oliver Tucker, III

…was an accomplished artist, as evidenced by his gardening, cooking, concrete sculptures, painting, botanical illustrations, and stencil work. He was a voracious reader and had amassed a library full of…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…Auk 56(4): 472-474. McIlhenny, E. A. 1939. An unusual migration of Broad-winged Hawks. The Auk 56(2): 182-183. McIlhenny, E. A. 1938. Whooping Crane in Louisiana. Auk 55: 670. McIlhenny, E….

Charles Fuller Baker

…of tuberculosis had neither money nor friends to care for him. Baker took the money he had put aside for the trip and sent the lad to the mountains. For…

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…

Mary Gwendolyn Burton Caldwell

…1964. He died in 1977.1 Together they had two children, Harmon W. Caldwell, Jr. and Edea M. Caldwell. “She never let her subscriptions to scientific journals lapse…she filled her garden…

Herman Harrison Braxton

…daughter, Elizabeth Anne, earned her A.B. at Wheaton College. In addition to serving on the Chase City town council for eight years (and Anne serving for six), Dr. Braxton “started…

Wendell P. Smith

…of the Slate-colored Junco. The Auk 53(2): 222-223. —. 1937. Some Bluebird observations. Bird-Banding 8(1): 25-30. —. 1937. Further notes on the nesting of the Barn Swallow. The Auk 54(1):…