Charles Ferson Durant

…result is characteristic of the man. To him the book had no money-value — or rather, it had a value too great to be expressed in terms of dollars or…

Louis Hermann Pammel

…plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control” by Ada E. Georgia. The Plant World 18(2): 48-49. —–. 1918. Prickly lettuce….

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

…Pontiac, Lexington, Towanda, LeRoy, El Paso, Larchwood, Decatur, Joliet, and Dwight. Fell also made several additions to Bloomington and founded the Town of Normal which had originally been known as…

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…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…rupestris, n. sp. Botanical Gazette 6 (3): 188-190. Chickering, J.W., Jr. (1882) The Canadian flora. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 9(11): 140. [Here, Chickering lists his address as “Deaf-Mute…

Abram Paschal Garber

…that his choice fell upon Lafayette College at Easton, Pa. [Pennsylvania]. For by that time his much admired professor had left Franklin and Marshall for Lafayette. That he was a…

Carroll Emory Wood, Jr.

…father, a pharmacist, held a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Maryland, and his mother, a graduate of Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina, was a substitute teacher…