Steven Worth Leonard

…Plant of the Week: Big-leaf witch-hazel (Hamamelis ovalis). https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/hamamelis_ovalis.shtml accessed on 20 February 2021. Obituary: Steven Worth Leonard. The Lexington Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina. Posted online 18 August, 2022. https://www.the-dispatch.com/obituaries/plex0281187…

Richard Halsted Ward

…practical applications of science. His original work in the advancement of science has been mostly in the direction of microscopy, in which he was among the first to apply the…

Rene Pomerleau

…in Montreal.1 In 1940, Laval’s School of Surveying and Forest Engineering adopted a new curriculum, and Rene Pomerleau (b. 1904) was appointed professor of forest pathology. Pomerleau had been teaching…

Louis Hermann Pammel

…Ecology 10(2): 251-256. Pammel, Louis H. and Charlotte M. King (1930?) Honey Plants of Iowa. Iowa Geological Survey [incomplete citation]   Sources: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isu150/history/pammel.htmlaccessed on 19 July 2017. 2. http://www.waysofenlichenment.net/lichens/Bacidia%20coprodes accessed…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…Tree. Owned by: jpaxton1951. Ancestry.com accessed 20 September 2011. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154125936/adams-jewett : accessed 24 October 2021), memorial page for Adams Jewett (26 Jun 1807–10 Mar…

Henry Roland Totten

…of Science in Pharmacy (B.S. Phar.). 4th ed. Prepared & Published by the National Pharmaceutical Syllabus Committee, representing the American Pharmaceutical Association, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the…

Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory

…had encountered (and were puzzled by!) Horse-sugar had been at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in February 2023. Distribution of Horse-sugar (Symplocos tinctoria) in North Carolina. Courtesy of North Carolina Biodiversity…

Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…Class of 2023, majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry. In addition to making digital images of specimens for our online catalog, he will be learning to file newly accessioned…

Charles Wright

…National Science Foundation, all the mycological collections at NCU are searchable via www.mycoportal.org and our vascular plants are searchable via www.sernecportal.org Other herbaria that curate Charles Wright’s specimens include the…