Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…Man’s Beard,” instead. It’s in the olive family! You can buy one at the Botanical Garden! I hope to have inspired at least a few acquaintances to Go Native.) Stewartia…

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…

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…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…(FLAS). Herbaria curating E. A. McIlhenny’s vascular plant specimens include Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN), Institute for Botanical Exploration (IBE), Louisiana State University (LSU), New York Botanical Garden (NY), Rocky…

Clyde Ritchie Bell

…1967-1971. Regnum Vegetabile, Volume 90. Utrecht, Netherlands: Published by Oosthoek’s Uitgevermaatschappij for the International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature. ii, 539 pp. 1973 (with J. Edison Adams, Victor A….

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…

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…

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…