Donald Culross Peattie

…of the natural world around the Grove. Louise and Donald Peattie moved to Santa Barbara, California, and it was there that he wrote A Natural History of Trees of Eastern…

Up Now: Sculpture in the Garden

The 34th annual Sculpture in the Garden opened on Sunday, September 18 and runs until Sunday, December 4. Since 1988, Sculpture in the Garden has united the work of local…

Herbert Spencer Jackson

…was recognized as a world authority on the rust and smut fungi, and to our knowledge of these groups he contributed thirty-one journal articles. In the Toronto area Professor Jackson…

Stewart Henry Burnham

…Fungal Collection (BPI), Utah State University (UTC), Iowa State University (ISC), Louisiana State University (LSU), Purdue University (PUR, PUL), Oregon State University (OSC), Rutgers University (CHRB), University of Illinois at…

John Marshall Grant

…Grant’s specimens have been distributed to various herbaria, and to private collectors, throughout the world. He corresponded with and exchanged specimens with botanists in nearly every part of the earth….

Juliet Faunteroy

…natural world and spent a portion of each day walking in woods surrounding her home. Her nephew remembers that she never returned with out a basket of berries or nuts…

Luther Stanford Beard

…Carolina to Sailor Oswald Beard (1888-1966) and Lillie Frances McCrackan (1890-1970). Two of Stanford’s older brothers served in the United States military and died in World War II: Sailor Oswald…