Henry Roland Totten

…of Science in Pharmacy (B.S. Phar.). 4th ed. Prepared & Published by the National Pharmaceutical Syllabus Committee, representing the American Pharmaceutical Association, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the…

Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory

…had encountered (and were puzzled by!) Horse-sugar had been at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in February 2023. Distribution of Horse-sugar (Symplocos tinctoria) in North Carolina. Courtesy of North Carolina Biodiversity…

Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…Class of 2023, majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry. In addition to making digital images of specimens for our online catalog, he will be learning to file newly accessioned…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…rupestris, n. sp. Botanical Gazette 6 (3): 188-190. Chickering, J.W., Jr. (1882) The Canadian flora. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 9(11): 140. [Here, Chickering lists his address as “Deaf-Mute…

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…

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…

Augustin Gattinger

…botany initiated me into the science. Moreover, I had from earlier school years been a botanical collector, and had given a great deal of time to these studies. After the…

William Wirt Calkins

…Lucy V. born 1859 and Jennie born 1862. Both had the surname Calkins, so perhaps were adopted by Calkins after marrying their mother.) William Wirt Calkins, Louisa Hossack Calkins, and…

Abbé Auguste Barthelemy Langlois

…2012. http://www.lahistory.org/site29.php 4. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 June 2020), memorial page for Rev Fr Augustus Barthelmy Langlois (24 Apr 1832–31 Jul 1900), Find a…