Ernest Gibbes Patton

…on higher plants.” The title of his doctoral thesis at Duke University was “The development of white pine forest and soil on abandoned farm lands in the North Carolina Blue…

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…daughters. (9) In 1959 the Brehmes moved to Winston-Salem, where Robert had a faculty position in the Physics Department at Wake Forest University until he retired in 1995. (6) Sue…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…“Bellamy Mansion.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 16 Feb. 2021. Web. 10 May. 2022. “Chesley Calhoun Bellamy” Find A Grave. Accessed on 21 October 2015. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115160358/chesley-calhoun-bellamy Pers….

Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr

for providing photograph of her. SOURCES: 1. Obituary: Pharr, Ruby Deaton Harbison. News Herald, Morganton, North Carolina. 9 March 2015. https://www.morganton.com/obituaries/pharr-ruby-deaton-harbison/article_4673f789-2a54-52c7-bd8c-b28605eaac85.html accessed on 2 June 2020. 2. Winters, Kelly. 1988….

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…1991 of complications from an influenza infection.”1   SOURCES: Meyer, Frederick G. 1992. Egbert Hamilton Walker (1899-1991). Taxon 41 (3): 618-620. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1222855 Data Portal. 2021. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on November 24….

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…F. Whigham, and John P. O’Neill. 2012. Limitations on orchid recruitment: not a simple picture. Molecular Ecology 21: 1511-1523. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05468.x https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2012_mccormick001.pdf Top photo: Aplectrum hyemale by Alan M. Cressler…

John Marshall Grant

…of naturalists who lay the foundation for the more spectacular work of the specialist. SOURCES: 1. John Marshall Grant. Find A Grave Memorial #133856997. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin//fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133856997 accessed on 11 January 2017….

Judy Ann Tate Morgan

…Carolina, Columbia (USCH).3 She continued her studies with Dr. Radford and earned a Ph.D. in 1967. The title of her doctoral thesis was “A taxonomic study of the genus Boltonia“.2…

John Robert Raper

…of Sciences, Washington, D.C. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/raper-john.pdf. 2. 1958 John R. Raper Dope Sheet ’33 Yackety Yack Revisited. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Records. 3. Williams, Dudley (1974) Memorandum…