Jumping the Gap with Northern Wireweed

…the gap between states. Ruth’s golden-aster (Pityopsis ruthii in the Aster Family) has been documented from southeastern Tennessee, but never found in neighboring North Carolina. Dwarf greenbriar (Smilax pumila in…

Anne Elizabeth Bowden McCrary

rutilus (Coquillett). M.A. Thesis, Zoology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SOURCES: 1. Steelman, Ben. November 8, 2011. Wilmington naturalist McCrary leaves local legacy. StarNews Online. https://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20111108/wilmington-naturalist-mccrary-leaves-local-legacy accessed…

Haru (Francia) Chisaki Hommersand

and News: Plagiobothrys austinae (Greene) Johnston: A new addition to the Oregon Flora. Madrono 16(3): 108. SOURCES: Macroalgal Herbarium Portal. 2022. https://macroalgae.org/portal/index.php. Accessed on December 21. Obituary: Haru (Francia) Chisaki…

William Battle Cobb

…for the U.S. Soil Survey from 1913 to 1920, and as a geologist & soil expert for the American Rural Planning Association in Madison, Wisconsin in 1920. W. B. Cobb…

Peggy-Ann Wetmore Kessler Duke

…happy hour!). She was an accomplished world traveler. At home, she enjoyed a glass of white wine with her “cousin” Suzie Truss and other close friends, often in the upper…

Carroll Emory Wood, Jr.

…thousand”. After a hiatus serving in the United States Army 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in Europe during World War II, he returned to Harvard to earn his Master of…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…at the End of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy. I cannot actually recommend this book — I find myself skimming paragraphs just to get on with it — but I’ll…

Hiden Toy Cox, Jr.

…interpreted to the people of this country and the world…I think we, as a country, need to make quite clear to other nations of the world that we have major…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…Egbert responded to a notice in the university newspaper that led to a position as a secondary school teacher in biology at Canton Christian College, later Lingnan University, in China……