Philip French-Carson Greear

…in 1942. He soon transferred into the newly formed U.S. Air Force, in Biloxi, Mississippi. There he met Mildred White, a young teacher who taught at Gulfport High School. They…

Mary Williams Ward Shanor

…in Wallace, Duplin County, North Carolina. PUBLICATIONS: Ward, Mary Williams (1939) Studies in aquatic fungi: I. Observations on a new species of Thraustotheca; II. Observations on Rhizophlyctis rosea (deBary &…

Herman Harrison Braxton

…While at Carolina “Brax” played dormitory & fraternity baseball and football. Most of his fungal collecting occurred in 1926, but it is unclear why he chose to collect specimens in…

Douglas Dwight Sharp

…William I. Sharp, and Clarissa Belle (Sutton) Sharp Bloss and his brother, William I. Sharp, Jr. He is survived by his daughter, Brooke (Jeff) Frommeyer; former spouse, Joye Sharp; grandchildren,…

Andrew Harvey Young

…curating A. H. Young’s specimens include the Field Museum (F), Indiana University (IND), University of Michigan (MICH), University of Notre Dame (ND), New York Botanical Garden (NY, which incorporated DPU…

Robert M. Downs

…Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. 5. tributesNH; Publication Place: City, New Hampshire, USA; URL: http://www.shellyfuneralhomes.com/book-of-memories/2706151/Learn-Betty/service-details.php. Ancestry.com. U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT,…

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….

Ken E. Rogers

…Griffin III (1974) Notes on Mississippi bryophytes I. Castanea 39(3): 239-262. Rogers, Ken E. and Frank D. Bowers (1973) Notes on Tennessee plants III. Castanea 38(4): 335-339. Rogers, Ken E….

Albion Reed Hodgdon

…on 32 acres in Dover, New Hampshire, when the boys were in their early youth. The first documentation of Albion’s interest in plant life is found in excerpts from a…