March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots

…& Notes Hockey Canada: https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/home| Brutus Buckeye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_Buckeye Stanford University Tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Tree Otto the Orange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_the_Orange College Mascots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_mascots_in_the_United_States New Zealand Football: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_women%27s_national_football_team New Zealand national team names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_national_team_nomenclature_based_on_the_%22All_Blacks%22 New

Samuel Mills Tracy

…1910. New farm crops for the South. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 35, No. 1, The New South (Jan., 1910), pp. 52-59. Stable URL:…

Albion Reed Hodgdon

…University of New Hampshire (NHA) is named in his honor. ” The Albion R. Hodgdon Herbarium (NHA) of was founded in 1892 when the University of New Hampshire, then known…

Henry Ashby Rankin

…typically signed his herbarium labels “H.A. Rankin”. Most specimens at NCU were collected in Cumberland County, North Carolina. Since he corresponded frequently with John K. Small at the New York

Stephen A. Spongberg

…Spongberg, S. A. (1991). A Sino-American Sampler. Arnoldia, 51(1), 2–14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42955344 Spongberg, Stephen A. (1990) A Reunion of Trees: The Discovery of Exotic Plants and their Introduction into North American

Dear Friends of the Herbarium,

…history of botanical exploration), we are unlikely to discover new plants. But access to new areas, along with new molecular and other tools for evaluating distinctiveness of populations, and a…

George Bowyer Rossbach

…calves among them. They browsed the willow bushes and sometimes a lean black spruce swayed as an individual rubbed its side against it. We noticed the high, massive shoulders, strikingly…

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…is 4 miles due north of Newport News, which, however, is in another county. SOURCES: 1. Find A Grave, Memorial 7991625 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7991625/james-everard-benedict accessed on 4 October 2020. 2. The Washington…

Herbert Spencer Jackson

…was born in New York state in 1883 and received his college education from Cornell, Harvard, and Wisconsin universities. He held posts at the universities of Delaware and Oregon and…