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…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…upon the completion of his masterpiece, the roast suckling pig. He was chief cook on summer school trips to Florida and the Southwest and would work equally hard to produce…

Maeburn Bruce Huneycutt

…a complicated man—I found letters from students who had him as a professor many years ago. They continued to write him and obviously had very deep affection for him,” says…

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…

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…

Elbert Thomas Bartholomew

…control it. The study also led to further expansion in the field of water relations. He worked out 17 papers on the internal decline of the lemon and two basic…

Walking with Walter and William

…Pine stands,” says Bruce Sorrie.1 By “well-managed” Sorrie means using prescribed fire and not raking pinestraw from the woodland. Overall, the forests of Weymouth Woods are burned every three years….

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…