Frederick Gustav Meyer

…He had Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Meyer was considered one of the nation’s best taxonomists in identifying cultivated plants, and he researched plants around the world. His main interest was in…

Clifford R. Parks

…The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was “Floral pigmentation studies in the genus Gossypium” and his thesis advisor was Dr. Stanley George Stephens. In addition to studying Gossypium at North…

Arthur Oliver Tucker, III

…was an accomplished artist, as evidenced by his gardening, cooking, concrete sculptures, painting, botanical illustrations, and stencil work. He was a voracious reader and had amassed a library full of…

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. 2. Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Virginia Department…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…herbaria curating Rev. Brinker’s specimens include the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH: bryophytes & vascular plants), Australian National Herbarium (CANB: bryophytes), Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT: bryophytes), California Academy…

William Willard Ashe

…ward, Hannah Emerson Willard, daughter of William H. Willard, a Massachusetts manufacturer who had settled in North Carolina before the Civil War. The widowed Willard had placed his daughter in…

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…road I noticed a fringe of Ebony Spleenwort growing on the low bank at the edge of the road. Among the plants was a fern that I took at first…