March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots

…Zealand flags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand Delta State University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_State_University Scottsdale Community College: https://www.scottsdalecc.edu/students/student-experience-leadership/mascot Minor League Baseball team names: https://www.milb.com/about/teams Hillsboro Hops: https://www.milb.com/hillsboro/fans/information Modesto Nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesto_Nuts Indiana State University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_State_Sycamores ; https://www.indstate.edu/university-marketing/brand-toolbox/logos University…

Max Hoyt Hommersand

…Hommersand include Centroceras hommersandii Won, T.O. Cho & Fredericq, Dichotomaria hommersandii S.-L. Liu & Show M. Lin, Gelidium hommersandii A.J.K. Millar & D.W. Freshwater, Gracilariopsis hommersandii Gurgel, Fredericq & J.N….

Frances Katherine Foust Lombard

…Lombard died on 22 June 1995 in Dane County, Wisconsin.7 She is buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland (photo of grave marker below).9  …

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…Illinois in Urbana, Illinois, USA), W (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien in Austria), and P (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France). 2 Adams Jewett was pivotal in the acquisition of books by…

John Robert Raper

…and C.-S. Wang (1970) Isozyme patterns and sexual morphogenesis in Schizophyllum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 66:882-89. Raper, John R. (1971) Growth and reproduction of fungi. In: Plant Physiology, A…

Lawson Edwin Yocum

…Individual Intercollegiate Rifle Championship in 1939.13 She married botanist Jack Rodney Harlan (1917-1998) in Berkeley, California, in 1939, and died in Urbana, Illinois in 1982. “Co-ed crowned Queen of Rifle…

William Basil Fox

…University in 1939 and an M.S. in 1940 from the same institution. His Ph.D. was from the University of Iowa in 1942. During the war he was an instructor in…