Josiah Hale

…species. W.M. Carpenter and Josiah Hale also worked on this manuscript, and Hale was responsible for the Cyperaceae and Gramineae. The Smithsonian declined to publish the manuscript, so Riddell published…

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

…1910. Rocky Mountain rambles. The Plant World 13(7): 155-163. —–. 1910. Rocky Mountain rambles (continued). The Plant World 13(8): 181-190. —–. 1911. A Manual of Poisonous Plants, chiefly of Eastern…

Budd Elmon Smith

Kannapolis in the school. Mr. Cannon saw Wingate as a place where the children of textile workers and others in the middle class might receive opportunities in higher education. He…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…upon the completion of his masterpiece, the roast suckling pig. He was chief cook on summer school trips to Florida and the Southwest and would work equally hard to produce…

William Battle Cobb

…are two ways in which an airplane may be used to advantage in soil survey work. One of these is by enabling the surveyor to make direct observations from the…

Andrew Harvey Young

…curating A. H. Young’s specimens include the Field Museum (F), Indiana University (IND), University of Michigan (MICH), University of Notre Dame (ND), New York Botanical Garden (NY, which incorporated DPU…

Alpheus Wesley Blizzard

…Blizzard’s partial list (137 species) of woody and non-woody species seen at Jayne’s Hill with those observed today shows few surprises. Overall, the species (at least the woody ones) of…

Alton McCaleb Harvill, Jr.

…Murray State Teachers College for two years. After completing some classes at the University of Idaho, he finished his undergraduate work at the University of Kentucky (UK), receiving his B.S….

Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price

…corresponded with other leading botanists of the time. Her artwork also won her public acclaim. An exhibition of her plant and bird illustrations won first prize at the Chicago World’s…