Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…population of 180 people, had no resident clergyman, newspaper, or lawyer. Fell boarded with James Allin on the corner of East and Grove Streets. He became Bloomington’s first and for…

Frances Katherine Foust Lombard

…North America. IN: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on root and butt rots; 1988 August 9-16; Vernon and Victoria, BC, Canada. International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO) working…

Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures

and international podcast, based on the belief that gardens and gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for potentially positive change in our world, helping to address challenges as wide ranging…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…(MWI: vascular plants), United States National Herbarium (US: lichens), and United States National Fungus Collections (BPI: fungi).2 “The Reverend Robert R. Brinker, O.F.M. [Order of Friars Minor], professor of biological…

Ellsworth Bethel

rust might be native. Upon this conclusion rests the value of the fall campaign against the white pine blister rust. Bethel’s knowledge of the rusts of the Rocky Mountain region,…

Joseph Austin Holmes

…accomplishments and leadership deserve mention. In 1903, he was appointed Director, Department of Mines and Metallurgy of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the St. Louis World’s Fair held in 1904….

Walter Lane Barksdale

…vascular plants), Duke University (DUKE; vascular plants & bryophytes), Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP; vascular plants), Harvard University Herbaria (AMES, GH; vascular plants), Louisiana State University (LSU; vascular plants),…

Stanley Adair Cain

…of Texas (BRIT:SMU, BRIT:VDB), Brigham Young University (BRY), Brown University (BRU), Butler University (BUT), Clemson University (CLEMS), Field Museum (F), Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP), Harvard University (GH), Highlands…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…collected from the Gulf Islands National Seashore in Gulf Breeze, Florida. As we have never had tree cores in our collection, I asked for more details – what species of…

John Robert Raper

…most frequent collecting locations included Chapel Hill and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and orchids seem to have been his particular interest. Although John Raper was a mycologist, we…