Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price

…corresponded with other leading botanists of the time. Her artwork also won her public acclaim. An exhibition of her plant and bird illustrations won first prize at the Chicago World’s…

Harley Harris Bartlett

…Harvard University in 1908. As an undergraduate he worked in the herbarium at Harvard. “He might have continued for graduate work in botany at Harvard, had not formal requirements become…

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…Ms. Taylor moved there permanently in 1912. 3 “She managed her property as a working farm, going into town to purchase supplies in jeans when other women of her wealthy…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…Auk, “The passing of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker”: One of the mysteries of Nature that has puzzled me for many years is the passing of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), a…

Charles Fuller Baker

…entomologist, botanist, agronomist, collector, teacher, agricultural director and dean, died at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manila, Philippine Islands, on July 22, 1927, aged fifty-five years. According to word received from…

Elsie Julia Gibson Whitney

women, who are in constant peril. “The station work is disorganized and neglected, and the native community further demoralized and increasingly unruly. As a basis for my charges of gross…

John R. Bozeman

…for his graduate work, but Bozeman also collected throughout the Southeastern United States. NCU has a single fungal specimens collected by Bozeman, Polyporus hydnoides, from Pierce County, GA collected in…

Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…and then transferred to Emory, one of the first women admitted there. At Emory she met her future husband Don E. Eyles in the office of biology professor Woolford Baker….

Philip Jerome Crutchfield

…secondary collector. He assisted Carl John Burk with his doctoral work, A floristic study of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, in 1959 and 1960. Crutchfield assisted Harry E. Ahles…

Thomas Fanning Wood

…Thomas Fanning Wood, born February 23, 1841, in Wilmington, North Carolina, was the son of Robert Barclay and Mary Ann (Wilber) Wood. Young Wood attended several local schools. While at…