NCBGF Officers and Directors

…& Research ICF Certified, Life and Corporate Coaching, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching As a CEO Coach, Mentor and Advisor at Vistage Worldwide, Inc. Niels helps people who run…

Charles Fuller Baker

…success that what is often good in scientific agriculture may be traced to a Baker tradition.” Baker was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American

Henry Ashby Rankin

…while he is earning his Masters degree in English at UNC-Chapel Hill, thanks his father for a recent letter that included nature notes. “You caught my eye first on the…

New Lichens in The Old North State

…Rim Lichen, Lecanora argopholis. Photo by Samuel Binker. Lecanora argopholis (Ach.) Ach. “White Beaded Rim Lichen” was found in a search of the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria online specimen record…

William Willard Ashe

newspaper, the Evening Crescent. In 1879 he purchased the Raleigh Observer, and in 1881 the Daily News, joining both papers as the News and Observer – which is still a…

Ellsworth Bethel

…3. Mycoportal.org searched on 29 August 2017. 4. Lichenportal.org searched on 29 August 2017. 5. Bryophyteportal.org searched on 29 August 2017. 6. Macroalgae.org searched on 29 August 2017. 7. Ancestry.com….

Mordecai Elisha Hyams

…through blockade runners.”1 Hyams was discharged from the Confederate Army on 20 April 1862 in Yorktown, Virginia. Hyams not only never returned to Florida, but also changed careers to botany….

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…

Francis Stuart Chapman

…The 1930 US census has Stuart Chapman still living in Winston-Salem, but now his occupation is listed as “Proprietor, News Dealer; Industry: Newspaper Stand.” (9) Chapman collected only sporadically in…