Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

…year! Did you know chickweed is edible? So are columbine flowers! Youngia japonica (oriental false hawksbeard) is in flower. The good news is this makes it easier to see and

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…Museum of Natural History (CM), and California Botanic Garden (RSA).6 “Mrs. Catharine Augusta Taylor (neé Birckhead) of Baltimore” Portrait by Richard Morrell Staigg (English, 1817-1881). Curated by The Walters Art…

Mordecai Elisha Hyams

…which were difficult to obtain, only through blockade runners. The stock on hand at the time of surrender was sold at a low figure, and shipped by the purchasers north,…

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

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…

Allen Hierome Curtiss

…D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. 8. Wikipedia contributors. “Peaks of…