Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures

and international podcast, based on the belief that gardens and gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for potentially positive change in our world, helping to address challenges as wide ranging…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…the Cosmos Club, the Explorers Club and National Presbyterian Church. Although he traveled around the world to find, identify and preserve plants, Dr. Meyer did not need exotic destinations or…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…Dr. F. R. Fosberg has said: “Any perceptive botanist who works extensively in the general Old World collections in the U.S. National Herbarium can scarcely fail to appreciate the prevailing…

John Nathaniel Couch

…between the rusts and Septobasidium. University of North Carolina Record 323: 9. A new fungus intermediate between the rusts and Septobasidium. Mycologia 29: 665-673. Notes on the genus Micromyces. Mycologia…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…(MWI: vascular plants), United States National Herbarium (US: lichens), and United States National Fungus Collections (BPI: fungi).2 “The Reverend Robert R. Brinker, O.F.M. [Order of Friars Minor], professor of biological…

Oliver Myles Freeman

…photographs. He wrote the first number in the National Arboretum Contributions series, summarizing the work he did on the original flora of the National Arboretum site. He retired on 1950-10-31,…

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…

Abbé Auguste Barthelemy Langlois

…1985-1986; institutions that received portions of LCU included Canadian Museum of Nature (CAN), Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM), Delaware State University (DOV), Field Musuem (F), United States National Arboretum…