Carl John Burk

…Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K3099015354/BIC?u=unc_main&sid=summon&xid=4da740df. Accessed 20 Nov. 2022. 4. Personal communication, Bruce Sorrie to McCormick, phone conversation, 21 November 2022….

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…and identified all but one of the plants, a missing link that nagged them. “One fern, Scolopendrium, appeared so often we were sure that the artist had seen it grown,”…

Seraph A. Bliss

…Collections for providing information about Ms. Bliss’ time at Mount Holyoak and for the images of Ms. Bliss for this post. Thanks also to Donna Albino for providing link to…

Francis Stuart Chapman

…a boarder with Solomon Pardue, a laborer in a furniture factory, Solomon’s wife and six children, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina.(8) It is about this time – 1919 –…

Steven Worth Leonard

…species might represent a rediscovery of the “lost” species Hamamelis macrophylla that was discovered and offered for sale in 1812 by John Lyon, a Scottish nurseryman who worked out of…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

for sale by the natives; lions have never shown themselves in this vicinity. The elephant range is more inferior; the forest is too close for this animal near the sea…

AbbΓ© Auguste Barthelemy Langlois

…was received at the Catholic University of America in 1896, numbered approximately 20,000 specimens, but his duplicates were widely distributed to several herbaria.” (2) LCU was dispersed by sale in…