Richard Halsted Ward

…as a critical element in many important criminal trials, he has made it prominent and important in many legal, medical, sanitary and economical cases pertaining to water supply, adulteration of…

Charles Ferson Durant

(1805-1873) The pleasure experienced [in the study of algae] is ample remuneration for the patient industry required in its pursuit. The gay iridescent plants seem tempting; the shore scenery is…

Rene Pomerleau

…parasitic infections, notably that which caused Dutch elm disease, whose presence he diagnosed in Canada in 1944. He was also distinguished by his work on decay in coniferous trees, a…

Henry Roland Totten

…aubleti; II. Developement of the seed in the cleistogamic flower of Specularia perfoliata.” Totten studied fungi for his Doctoral thesis (1923), “Description, life history, and mycorrhizal character of Rhizopogon parasiticus…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…Man’s Beard,” instead. It’s in the olive family! You can buy one at the Botanical Garden! I hope to have inspired at least a few acquaintances to Go Native.) Stewartia…

Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…University to McCormick 27 October 2020. Illinois State Marriage Records. Online index. Illinois State Public Record Offices. . Ancestry.com. Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,…

Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…Tar Heel (DTH). Newspaper is an essential item for plant collectors, as each specimen is placed in a fold of newspaper in the plant press. Fortuitously, the DTH is the…

Charles Wright

…Connecticut. While as an undergraduate at Yale (1831-1835) he developed an interest in botany. He taught school for a year in Natchez, Mississippi, then in 1837 moved to Texas where…