Bruce Alexander Sorrie

…Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region: North Carolina,South Carolina and Georgia.” The book is available for purchase at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill. SELECTED…

Parker Preserve Now Open!

…Hill, and many private donors helped us purchase an adjoining 13-acre parcel of land owned by the Shirley G. Cochrane Trust on Parker Road this July. Adding the Cochrane property…

Elam T. Bartholomew

…in Illinois. Accordingly, he purchased a copy of Gray’s Lessons in Botany and had soon passed the examinations in botany as well as in the other required subjects. Following the…

Willard Webster Eggleston

…used the $50 dollars from the prize to purchase a down sleeping bag, which made my own fieldwork as a biologist much more pleasant. I can see now that WW…

Saving the Crystal Skipper

…not available for purchase, the goal will be to encourage landowners to recognize the beauty and importance of native plants and to maintain habitat that is already in place. Restoring…

Augustin Gattinger

…older physician who intended to go West. I purchased the place in partnership with my brother-in-law, the late George Dury, a Munich artist, whose exquisite paintings now adorn the State…

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…Ms. Taylor moved there permanently in 1912. 3 “She managed her property as a working farm, going into town to purchase supplies in jeans when other women of her wealthy…

Joseph Austin Holmes

…accomplishments and leadership deserve mention. In 1903, he was appointed Director, Department of Mines and Metallurgy of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the St. Louis World’s Fair held in 1904….

Peter MacOwan

…was acquired by purchase for the Pretoria Herbarium from Dr. S. Schonland [Selmar Schonland; MacOwan’s son-in-law] when he retired from the curatorship of the Albany Museum [in Grahamstown, South Africa]….