Samuel McCutchen Bain

…Experiments in the boll weevil investigations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He devoted one-half of his time to this work for a number of years, working in West Tennessee,…

Alpheus Wesley Blizzard

…Blizzard’s partial list (137 species) of woody and non-woody species seen at Jayne’s Hill with those observed today shows few surprises. Overall, the species (at least the woody ones) of…

Andrew Harvey Young

Manual of the Botany of Jefferson County [Indiana], published in 1871.   “Professor Young often took his students on natural science expeditions into the surrounding woods of Hanover College and…

Maeburn Bruce Huneycutt

…a complicated man—I found letters from students who had him as a professor many years ago. They continued to write him and obviously had very deep affection for him,” says…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…speech entitled “The Present Devotedness of Genius to the Amusement of the World.”8 In the autumn of 1827 he moved to Claiborne, Alabama ** and worked as a private teacher….

Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…and then transferred to Emory, one of the first women admitted there. At Emory she met her future husband Don E. Eyles in the office of biology professor Woolford Baker….

Harry E. Ahles

…a major floristic study of that state. This work resulted in the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (University of North Carolina Press, 1968), which served as the…

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…Ms. Taylor moved there permanently in 1912. 3 “She managed her property as a working farm, going into town to purchase supplies in jeans when other women of her wealthy…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…Auk, “The passing of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker”: One of the mysteries of Nature that has puzzled me for many years is the passing of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), a…