Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…Mr. Russell said. “Frankly, in this day and age, she would be fired.” He bemoaned the fact that today most students don’t have that kind of relationship with a teacher….

Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures

and international podcast, based on the belief that gardens and gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for potentially positive change in our world, helping to address challenges as wide ranging…

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…

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…

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…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…(MWI: vascular plants), United States National Herbarium (US: lichens), and United States National Fungus Collections (BPI: fungi).2 “The Reverend Robert R. Brinker, O.F.M. [Order of Friars Minor], professor of biological…

John Nathaniel Couch

…between the rusts and Septobasidium. University of North Carolina Record 323: 9. A new fungus intermediate between the rusts and Septobasidium. Mycologia 29: 665-673. Notes on the genus Micromyces. Mycologia…

Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…population of 180 people, had no resident clergyman, newspaper, or lawyer. Fell boarded with James Allin on the corner of East and Grove Streets. He became Bloomington’s first and for…