Frederick William Anderson

…gone while we are mutually planning for many more years of service together in our beloved science; gone, adding one more to the mysteries of divine providence which so often…

William C. Brumbach

…malacology. The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum (Lee County, Florida, USA) curates many specimens collected by Brumbach. “The scientific collection at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum houses many thousands of records…

Guy Richard Bisby

…“MAC, Winnipeg, Man.” as a location on his specimen labels. According to Cynthia Dietz, GIS Environmental Studies Librarian at the University of Manitoba, “MAC” refers to the Manitoba Agricultural College….

John Robert Raper

…had suffered a massive heart attack before my birth and I never knew him as a robust man. The hard work on the farm and largely the direction of its…

Mordecai Elisha Hyams

…botanist of Mr. L. Pinkus, dealer in medicinal roots and herbs. He was quite a remarkable man – a man of greater gifts than many of his acquaintances were aware….

George Bowyer Rossbach

…graduate work. She studied Botany with Prof. Fernald when she was at Radcliff College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and illustrated many of the Grass Family in Gray’s Manual of Botany, 8th…

Allen Hierome Curtiss

…several miles in the vicinity of that ancient town in company with Dr. Chapman [Alvan Wentworth Chapman, 1809-1899], and of being introduced by him to many plants peculiar to this…

Harold Ernest Parks

…California, where Parks worked a a mill worker and salesman until 1914, when he went to San Jose, California, as a special clerk in the Post Office. Mr. and Mrs….

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…Agriculture. He devoted one-half of his time to this work for a number of years, working in West Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. While he was actively engaged in this work,…