Edward Avery McIlhenny

…McIlhenny Company, famous for Tobasco brand pepper sauce, he was also an ardent naturalist and Honorary Life Associate Member of the American Ornithologists’ Union.(1) Edward Avery McIlhenny collected this fungal…

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….

Henrietta “Henny” Laing Chambers

…genus Pycnanthemum (Labiatae).” Dr. Chambers was a research assistant in Plant Pathology at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon from 1961-1967 and a faculty member at Linn-Benton Community College (Linn…

What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…Mary Knierim*, Eugenie “Gigi” McDonald*, Pippa Merrick, Miriam Sagasti*, and Ruta Schuller*. The exhibit also contains many fun interactive components like recipe cards to take home. One of the recipes…

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….

Ernest Gibbes Patton

…1. Faculty Gallery. https://www.wofford.edu/library/archives/content.aspx?id=452413 accessed on 13 March 2017.” 2. Dr. E. Gibbes Patton, Aug. 28, 2010. Wofford Today, Fall 2010, p. 30. Office for Communications & Marketing, Wofford College….

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

commenced in a village near us, which only failed for want of common ability in the teacher. The natives had hired him without our knowledge, and at their own expense….

Enchantress along the Eno

…modest wildflower — the name in vogue now is Circaea canadensis. “The systematics of this taxon is controversial, and the best treatment is still unclear… The complicated synonymy is perhaps…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…I gradually realized that all of the behavior I was studying was some form of communication and that what I was trying to understand was the evolution of communication by…