Budd Elmon Smith

…support. New recruitment strategies were implemented that aimed to increase the student body from its tenuous level of about 400. In 1955, Dr. Smith interested Mr. Charles A. Cannon of…

Josiah Hale

…Sagittaria calycina maxima Engelm. collected in Louisiana is the type specimen. Jared G. Smith re-named it Lophotocarpus calycinus in 1900 (6). Josiah Hale was also interested in cryptogams (7). He…

New Species of Foamflower

…home using its Latin name, which means “little crown.” Others would call it “foamflower.” It’s easy to recognize and a beautiful plant growing in beautiful places. Perhaps fewer know that…

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…

Carl John Burk

…are not yet cataloged in an on-line public format.4 Burk was born in Troy, Ohio on 30 December 1935.1 After receiving an A. B. from Miami University in Ohio in…

Preserves and Natural Areas

…on designated paths, and don’t disturb plants, animals, fungi, or rocks. You’re in a natural setting and may see poison ivy, stinging insects, or snakes. If you keep clear of…

Richard Glenn Bowmer

…Professor of Biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, from 1960-1961. In 1961 he began his long association with the Department of Biological Sciences of Idaho State University in…

John Nathaniel Couch

…cataloged in sernecportal.org . Dr. Couch followed the interests of his mentor, Dr. Coker, in his research on fungi. He and Coker co-authored a work on the gasteromycetes of the…