Philip Jerome Crutchfield

…medicine, and other needs for human survival under adverse conditions.”7 According to his obituary, “He was especially interested in plant taxonomy and ecology and conducted environmental impact studies and other…

Search Herbarium Specimens

…aquatic organisms. A number of macroalgal species, including kelp and nori, are grown via aquaculture or harvested from the wild for human food and for extraction of colloids used in…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…through cord runners down one side, under the bottom and up the opposite side. The ends of the cord are secured to a netsuke, a kind of toggle that is…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…in the South, he [Adams Jewett] bore an implacable hatred to human slavery, and every fugitive black man who knocked on is door was sure of a cordial reception and…

Alyssa Chen – 2019 C. Ritchie Bell Award

…State University, whose interests concern the human dimensions of wildlife. She studied perceptions of species belonging among Swedish hunters, focusing on public attitudes about whether species belong in a certain…

Dear Friends of the Herbarium,

…fundraising and a recent generous gift from the Soo Foundation—to design, fund, and construct a new research building to house the UNC Herbarium and other conservation-related com- ponents of the…

Ferdinand Blanchard

…of his life. Linn Rudolph Blanchard, named in honor of Swedish taxonomist Linnaeus, was born in Peacham, Vermont 17 June, 1881. Linn married Sara Etta Johnston in 1911, and died…

Mordecai Elisha Hyams

…through blockade runners.”1 Hyams was discharged from the Confederate Army on 20 April 1862 in Yorktown, Virginia. Hyams not only never returned to Florida, but also changed careers to botany….

Diane Elizbeth Wickland

…Karchut, Elisabeth Larson, Michelle Mack, A. David McGuire, Donald McLennan, Juha Metsaranta, Charles Miller, Michael Rawlins, Robert Striegl, Matthew Sturm, Colm Sweeney, Ruth Varner, Diane Wickland, Stan Wullschleger. 2014. A…