Edward Avery McIlhenny

…yet, the Pileated Woodpecker has survived in numbers, extended its range, and is in no danger of exterminations, while the Ivory-bill has gradually disappeared, until now it is practically exterminated….

Charles Fuller Baker

…According to S. A. Rohwer, information received by Dr. L. O. Howard from Baker indicates that the insect “collection is considerably larger than it was in November 1926, as baker…

Helen Shedd Sherwin

…Sherwin deposited about 60 fungal specimens in NCU; most were collected during the summers of 1942 and 1943 in the vicinity of the Highlands Biological Station in Macon County, North…

Mary Gwendolyn Burton Caldwell

…through the mountains and study the different plants and mushrooms and fungi. I think for her it was an idyllic period when she was in school back in the ‘30’s,”…

Wendell P. Smith

…asked how he had adjusted to the Yadkin River Valley after a lifetime in the Connecticut River Valley in Vermont. “There isn’t a lot of difference,” Wendell replied. “Nature is…

What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…Tom Stevens. In addition, the exhibit also includes illustrations by North Carolina Botanical Artists Circle members including graduates of the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Certificate Program*: Sherry Graham, Lisa Holmsen*,…