Charles Henry Hitchcock

…##### SOURCES: “About the Hitchcock Atlas: Who was Charles Hitchcock?” Text by Thelma Thompson, Government Documents Librarian, University of New Hampshire Library, August 20, 2002, revised January 16, 2008. https://www.library.unh.edu/find/digital/maps-atlases/about-hitchcock-atlas…

Clinton Osborne Houghton

…on 8 March 2021. 2. Houghton, Clinton Osborne. Find A Grave Memorial # 135421565. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135421565/clinton-osborne-houghton 3. University of Delaware. Blue Hen Yearbook, 1933, page 36. https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/5957 accessed on 8 March…

Edwin Huey Bullington

10,000 and 70,000 years ago, about thirty acres of hillside collapsed and slid into the valley, causing massive blocks of sandstone to fracture and form numerous crevices and caves. In…

Donald Culross Peattie

…and uselessness — of local floras. Castanea 11(2): 63-65.   Sources: Peter Friederici (2000) Donald Culross Peattie: Remembering an Early Prophet in Chicago Wilderness. Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Fall 2000. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chicagowilderness.org/resource/collection/0625B160-07C5-482A-8BDF-D86381B9FC77/2000-Fall.pdf…

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,…

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…Find A Grave Memorial # 83056299. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83056299/ivey-foreman-lewis accessed on 20 January 2021 Special thanks to Bill Burk, retired librarian, Couch Library, Botany Section, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill….

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…Inner Bluegrass of Kentucky. Castanea, 45(3), 149–165. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4033225 Wharton, Mary E., Bruce Frederick Denbo, and Clyde T. Burke. 1980. The Horse World of the Bluegrass. John Bradford Press, Lexington, Kentucky….

Albert Commons

…is likely additional specimens will be found. NCU’s vascular plants can be searched at www.sernecportal.org NCU curates only about 40 fungal specimens collected by Commons, and most of these were…

Budd Elmon Smith

(9 February 1910 – 5 August 1976) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 850 vascular plant specimens, 10 fungal specimens, and 1 lichen specimen…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…on the White House roof to protect the president.””   SOURCE: Sullivan, Patricia. 2006. Obituary: Frederick Meyer, 88. The Washington Post. November 14, 2006. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/11/14/frederick-meyer-88/5079af3c-74b9-43c8-a02f-e352f18513e1/ accessed on 13 December 2022….