Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith

…Goldie-Smith, who usually signed her labels as “E.K.G.S.” Our fungal collection is being cataloged into the searchable on-line database, www.mycoportal.org As we continue to catalog our fungi it is probable…

Peter MacOwan

…Philosophical Society. Transactions. Volume 2, part 3, pp. 111-187. SOURCES: 1. http://www.abcjournal.org/index.php/ABC/article/viewFile/1900/1856 accessed on 3 November 2015. 2. http://www.capeorchids.co.za/history.htm accessed on 3 November 2015. [Photo of MacOwen and canine friend]…

Allen Hierome Curtiss

…D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. 8. Wikipedia contributors. “Peaks of…

Dennis Harold Latham

…Dr. John Nathaniel Couch of the Botany Department at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who had provided guidance for the project.8 Latham had collected the fungus “from a moderately dry,…

Nancy Blair Eliason

…North Carolina: North Carolina State Archives. Microfilm. Peace College 1937 Yearbook. http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Peace_College_Lotus_Yearbook/1937/Page_18.html accessed on 4 December 2013. Faculty Archives, East Carolina University. http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/archives/facultye.cfm accessed on 4 December 2013. Pers. comm.,…

Oren Lloyd Justice

…two specimens collected by Oren Lloyd Justice in Alabama in 1940 and 1941. NCU already had at least one other specimen collected by Justice: Podostemum ceratophyllum collected in 1938 from…

Lawson Edwin Yocum

…August, 1890, had two brothers, Nelson C., born in October, 1893, and Myron C., born in March 1899. The family had a farm in Roaring Creek, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.3 In…

Ellsworth Bethel

…“Up to 1907 I had the invaluable assistance of Mr. Bethel, of Denver, and able and tireless collector, thoroughly acquainted with all parts of Colorado.” Of the 94 species of…

Effie Boon

…Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

…cubensis. The genus name is derived from the Greek and means “bare head,” while the specific epithet means “coming from Cuba” and refers to the type locality where Franklin Sumner…