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…

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…

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…

Elsie Julia Gibson Whitney

…of the Naval Radio Station, habitually had Auzenia Diakanof, a native girl, at the station for immoral purposes, that her mother had complained to Hope about the matter, and he…

Walking with Walter and William

…of Asters, and thanks to Bruce Sorrie’s excellent book, A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (available in the NCBG Garden Shop!), we were able to identify…

Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

…as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For University updates and advisories on the Coronavirus, please visit www.unc.edu/coronavirus. Check for our most recent Garden-specific updates at ncbg.unc.edu/coronavirus. Many…

Paul Wilson Titman

…were Paul Abram Titman, a depot agent for the Southern Railroad, and Mary Elsie Wilson Titman. He grew up in Lowell, Gaston County, North Carolina.1 In 1940 Titman was an…

Lisa Marie Giencke

…the spread of beech bark disease in a 2 ha plot at the Huntington Wildlife Forest near Newcomb, NY. Her thesis is titled “Spatiotemporal dynamics of an Adirondack forest.” In…