Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

…one with the surname of “Cave” or “Caves” — but that did not rule out that these hypothetical troglodytes lived in rural Orange County or Durham County. Neither of these…

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…Museum of Natural History (CM), and California Botanic Garden (RSA).6 “Mrs. Catharine Augusta Taylor (neé Birckhead) of Baltimore” Portrait by Richard Morrell Staigg (English, 1817-1881). Curated by The Walters Art…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…Tyler J., Paul A. Knapp, and Jason T. Ortegren (2019) Tropical cyclone frequency inferred from intra-annual density fluctuations in longleaf pine in Florida, USA. Climate Research 78: 249-259. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01573  …

Joseph Austin Holmes

…chemistry, agriculture, botany, chemistry, entomology, horticulture, math, and veterinary science. In botany, he took courses in systematics, histology, fungi, and extra credit, which probably consisted of original research. By July…

Percy H. Gentle

…Percy H. Gentle #56, along the Belize-Sibun River road, Belize District, British Honduras, 1931-1932; duplicate in F.)11 Primulaceae: Ardisia gentlei Lundell Rubiaceae: Randia gentlei Lundell Rutaceae: Zanthoxylum gentlei Lundell &…

Steven Worth Leonard

…Steve Leonard grew up as a kid. We brought those Trillium back in full flower, each one carefully bundled “Al Radford style” in folds of newspaper secured with rubber bands…

Carroll Emory Wood, Jr.

…United States (GFSEUS), which for many years was a major research project at the Harvard Herbaria in Cambridge Massachusetts.” There are several vascular plants named in honor of Carroll Emory…

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…