New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…University of North Carolina Herbarium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 3. Ranger, L. Scott. “Parnassia asarifolia Ventenat 1804, grass-of-parnassus.” Scott Ranger’s Nature Notes [online blog]. http://www.scottranger.com/parnassia-asarifolia-grass-of-parnassus.html accessed 1 April 2021.  …

Steven Worth Leonard

…Plant of the Week: Big-leaf witch-hazel (Hamamelis ovalis). https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/hamamelis_ovalis.shtml accessed on 20 February 2021. Obituary: Steven Worth Leonard. The Lexington Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina. Posted online 18 August, 2022. https://www.the-dispatch.com/obituaries/plex0281187…

Ellsworth Bethel

…the available resources. It was always Bethel’s hope that he would be able, in his later years, to thoroughly revise many of these materials. Unfortunately, the state of Colorado could…

Allen Hierome Curtiss

…find no references for “Heirome” at all. Of course, different spellings occur everywhere…. Would that his birth certificate of christening records were available,” says Nancy Janda, Assistant Archivist at the…

Rene Pomerleau

…Les Prix du Quebec Rene Pomerleau’s principal research was devoted to tree diseases and their agents, and he authored 250 scientific articles and seven books. He studied a number of…

Richard Halsted Ward

…of various kinds obtained by the late Florida Expedition, which was sent out under the auspices of the Society. The collection consisted principally of corals, shells, birds and fish. The…

Louis Hermann Pammel

…Ecology 10(2): 251-256. Pammel, Louis H. and Charlotte M. King (1930?) Honey Plants of Iowa. Iowa Geological Survey [incomplete citation]   Sources: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isu150/history/pammel.htmlaccessed on 19 July 2017. 2. http://www.waysofenlichenment.net/lichens/Bacidia%20coprodes accessed…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…the Depot, Typographic Hall, 1853. 1860 US Census: Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. http://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/page/page/1567860.htmaccessed 18 September 2011. 1850 US Census: Dayton,Mongtomery County, Ohio. Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]….