Henrietta “Henny” Laing Chambers

…and analyzing artificial and natural hybrids. I chose to work with Ken as my major professor… Our daughter, Elaine, was born in New Haven in May, three months before we…

Charles Norman Horn

…(MMNS), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), New York Botanical Garden (NY), North Carolina State University (NCSC), Rutgers University (CHRB), Texas A& M (TAES), Troy University (TROY), University of Alabama (UNA), University…

Percy H. Gentle

…7 fungal specimens), University of Arizona (ARIZ; 154), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO; 88 bryophytes), New York Botanical Garden (NY; 49 bryophytes) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (WIS; 118). Like…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…(FH), Cornell University (CUP), New York Botanical Garden (NY), Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research (PDD), United States National Fungus Collections, USDA-ARS (BPI), University of Wyoming (RMS), and Florida Museum of Natural History…

Stephen A. Spongberg

…of antiques and oriental rugs, and he had an impressive collection of botanical and natural history themed postage stamps. He loved classical music and opera, particularly the works of J.S….

Thomas Fanning Wood

also keeping a new drugstore that had been established by Louis B. Erambert. Wood enjoyed working in the store, where he could read and learn about drugs. When the American…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…that are still housed in herbaria at the Smithsonian Institution, New York Botanical Garden, and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Chickering also climbed Mount Washington in 1862 for the…

Herbert Spencer Jackson

…of systematic mycology one of its great men of all time in the sudden death of H. S. Jackson on December 14, at his home in Toronto. Herbert Spencer Jackson…

John Adolph Shafer

…the New York Botanical Garden. Besides the expedition to Cuba in 1903, mentioned above, Dr. Shafer collected for the New York Botanical Garden in 1907 on the island of Montserrat,…