Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures

…and editor Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods and Fruit 2016 Thomas Rainer, landscape architect and author Planting Design in a Post-Wild World 2015 Doug Tallamy,…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…be found in NCU. For an excellent summary of Bush’s life and botanical contributions, see Palmer, Ernest J. (1937) Benjamin Franklin Bush. American Midland Naturalist 18(3): i – vi. Excerpts…

Samuel B. Jones, Jr.

…Rodora 89: 35-40. Jones, S. B. 1983. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of Georgia, The Friends of the Botanical Garden 12(1): 3-6. Jones, S. B. 1982. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of…

Charles Ferson Durant

…holding Durant’s book on algae include University of Maryland (College Park, MD), Ohio State University Libraries (Columbus, OH), Princeton University Library (Princeton, NJ), Rutgers University Libraries (Piscataway, NJ), The Newark…

Walking with Walter and William

…much good farming land. Close at hand towards the north stretched the broad swamp of the Santee river, five miles wide in places. In the old days before the [American]…

Frederick William Anderson

…his forthcoming work on the “North American Pyrenomycetes.” Upon completing his work for Mr. Ellis he was engaged upon the editorial force of the American Agriculturalist at New York. Upon…

George Andrew Christenberry

…served in that capacity until coming to Augusta. From 1974-1977 he served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. With other college presidents,…

Herbert Spencer Jackson

…was recognized as a world authority on the rust and smut fungi, and to our knowledge of these groups he contributed thirty-one journal articles. In the Toronto area Professor Jackson…

Juliet Faunteroy

…“Avoca,” an American Queen Anne-style house built in 1901 that is now a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It currently houses the Avoca…