Paul Sackman Marx

…our classmate, Phillip Rury, Paul did lots of chromosome squashes on that genus. He became an avid kyaker. To my knowledge Paul did not complete his Ph.D., but instead went…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…of South Carolina] faculty member, and department head, member of the SC Hall of Science and Technology, and beloved biology professor and mentor to hundreds of practicing scientists and teachers….

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…he long resided, familiar to botanists almost throughout the world. Western Missouri was a frontier country at the close of the Civil War, and nowhere had gorilla [sic; guerilla] warfare…

Frances Ernestine Silliman

…University of Minnesota, College of Education with a Bachelors of Science in June, 1928. (8) Frances Silliman had a long association with Bridgewater College in Virginia. She taught Biology at…

Donald Culross Peattie

…Annotated List of the Plants Growing Spontaneously in Polk County, North Carolina, ad Adjacent Parts of South Carolina, in Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. Part I. Introduction: Soils, Cilmate, Etc., Ferns…

Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…1966 Lelong was among 35 “New Fulltime Faculty Members” of the University of South Alabama. His salary as an Assistant Professor of Biology was $7,000-$7,500, with a note that beginning…

Clifford R. Parks

…The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was “Floral pigmentation studies in the genus Gossypium” and his thesis advisor was Dr. Stanley George Stephens. In addition to studying Gossypium at North…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…He had Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Meyer was considered one of the nation’s best taxonomists in identifying cultivated plants, and he researched plants around the world. His main interest was in…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…Gray Card Index in the hallway in dark green drawers, I had to check whether this story was wholly apocryphal, but indeed, every drawer had a fine gray powder in…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

(12 June 1899 – 10 March 1991)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected or co-collected by Egbert Hamilton Walker,…