Albert Commons

…in 1683. Owing to ill-health and a delicate constitution, the only education Albert Commons received was that obtained at the country district school, where he became interested in botany through…

Budd Elmon Smith

…support. New recruitment strategies were implemented that aimed to increase the student body from its tenuous level of about 400. In 1955, Dr. Smith interested Mr. Charles A. Cannon of…

Willard Webster Eggleston

…Herbarium and many specimens from Eggleston’s herbarium were included. In addition to Eggleston’s interests in systematic and economic botany, he was also studied the history and routes of early botanists…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…corps in Europe during World War II and settled in St. Louis, where he earned a doctorate in botany from Washington University in 1949. He did postdoctoral work at University…

Charles Ronald Dillon

…lucky dogs.” (1) PUBLICATIONS: (incomplete list) Dillon, C.R., 1986. Effectivess of the Triploid White Amur in Controlling Aquatic Vegetation in Four Upstate Reservoirs. Water Resources Research Institute, Clemson University. K.D….

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…

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,”…

Dr. Elizabeth Henry Bellmer, S. N. D.

…mid-1960’s. In 1969 she published “Distribution, variation and chromosome number in the Appalachian shale barren endemic Eriogonum allenii Watson” in Biological Studies #132. The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C….

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…oak baskets and other items used to interpret life in the village. (8, 9) Robert Brehme died in 2016 in Belleair Bluffs, Florida, and was survived by his wife of…

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…