Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…studied medicine at the Berkshire Medical Institution in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a school which was founded in 1821 and had its last commencement in 1867. He graduated from this school in…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…Order of Red Men.”4 On 12 August, 1912 Bellamy married Caroline Louise Mallett (1891-1978) of Etowah, Henderson County, North Carolina and together they had two children, Caroline Bellamy Varnau (?…

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

…moved to Corvallis. Needless to say, a cross- country automobile trip with an infant and pulling a U-Haul trailer had both good and bad moments. The next-to-last day of the…

Rassie Everton Wicker

…collected in his native Moore County, North Carolina, but there are a few from Hoke and Lee Counties as well. In addition to NCU other herbaria which curate specimens collected…

Land Acknowledgement

…action to advocate for and support the agendas of Native communities. The Garden and Foundation aspire to understand and share a complete history of the land we steward. Indigenous Land…

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…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…his first book after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin had used these nectar-producing tubes as examples of the precise adaptions of complex structures by natural selection. In this…