Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…Sabulina brevifolia (Nutt.) Small”. In addition to NCU, herbaria curating vascular plant specimens collected by Mary S. Stipe Eyles include Arizona State University (ASU), Brown University (BRU), Emory University (GEO),…

William Willard Ashe

newspaper, the Evening Crescent. In 1879 he purchased the Raleigh Observer, and in 1881 the Daily News, joining both papers as the News and Observer – which is still a…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…found in US. Blue Ridge Three-lobed Coneflower, Rudbeckia rupestris Chick. was published in 1881 in Coult. Bot. Gaz.vi: 188. This plant is found in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and

NCBGF Officers and Directors

…Gail Perry Group, an international fundraising consulting company, and has led workshops on major donor fundraising around the world. Her book, “Fired Up Fundraising: Turn Board Passion into Action,” is…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

International Correspondence School in Pennsylvania. Williston began his teaching career at the [North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University] in Greensboro in 1898. In 1902, he joined the agricultural science…

Heinrich “Henry” Karl Daniel Eggert

…its first vice-president. He was also a member of the International Associations of Botanists, and was made one of its vice-presidents. Personally, he seems to have had no enemies; he…

Peggy-Ann Wetmore Kessler Duke

…one-person exhibition at the US National Arboretum in Washington, DC. As a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, she exhibited her work in many group exhibitions around Washington,…

Jacob Fredric Brenckle

…there are a few manuscripts on raising bees. The collection also offers valuable insight into the lives and work of academics in the early 1900’s, and contemporary thoughts on World

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…the Cosmos Club, the Explorers Club and National Presbyterian Church. Although he traveled around the world to find, identify and preserve plants, Dr. Meyer did not need exotic destinations or…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…Dr. F. R. Fosberg has said: “Any perceptive botanist who works extensively in the general Old World collections in the U.S. National Herbarium can scarcely fail to appreciate the prevailing…