Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…display. Dr. Totten’s doctoral hood made of silk and velvet is in very bad condition — unwearable, in fact — so anyone willing to donate their biology doctoral hood (or…

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

…Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Selected Passports. National Archives, Washington, D.C. 6. Ancestry.com. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 [databaseon-line]. Provo,…

Elsie Julia Gibson Whitney

…– A dance was held at night at the native shop. Several natives were drunk there. Oct. 1, 1913. — In conversation with Dr. McGovern he declared that Hope, chief…

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…

Paul Wilson Titman

…the woody anatomy of the family Nyssaceae.” In 1953 Titman earned a Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University; the title of his doctoral thesis was “Studies of long and short…

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…