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…

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…

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…

Philip French-Carson Greear

…we continue to catalog our holdings it is likely more will be found. Most of Greear’s specimens curated by NCU were collected for his doctoral work on the vegetation of…

Herman Harrison Braxton

…rural Haywood County. In 1926 he co-authored with Dr. William Chambers Coker, “New Water Molds from the Soil,” (Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 42(1-2): 139-149). In 1927 he…

Helen Shedd Sherwin

…Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 64(2): 267-276. Lefebvre, C. L. and Helen S. Sherwin. 1948. An undescribed species of Helminthosporium on Sudan Grass and Sorghum. Mycologia 40(6): 708-716. Sherwin, H. S.,…