NCBGF Spring Board Meeting

NCBGF Spring Board Meeting Friday, May 19, 2023; 10 a.m.-12 p.m. In Person: NCBG, Joslin Classroom 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill Join Online: https://unc.zoom.us/j/96224374906 Join by Phone: Dial:…

William Battle Cobb

…was known as an innovator in the field of soil science. “The greatest time-saver in soil survey field work was introduced in North Carolina in 1920. W. B. Cobb and…

Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

…his/her initials and assumes that 100 years later I will know who H.R.T. is (pointing at you, Dr. Henry Roland Totten), and sometimes the locality information is difficult to interpret….

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…Illinois State Academy of Science 65: 82-83. 2. SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on September 21. 3. IPNI (2023). International Plant Names Index. Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org, The

James Heathman Horton

…A list of dissertations and graduate theses in botany completed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1912-2005. 3. History of Conference. https://www.wcu.edu/engage/professional-enrichment/conferences-and-community-classes/the-cullowhee-native-plant-conference/history-of-conference.aspx accessed on 9 April 2020….

William Willard Ashe

…in current usage for plants of eastern North America — though others of the names could come back into use in the future.”(1) His keen eye for detail led him…

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…

Ernest Gibbes Patton

…and retired from that institution in 1987.1 Patton’s thesis advisor at UCN-Chapel Hill was J. E. Adams, and the title of his Master’s Thesis was “Influence of flax root byproducts…