Budd Elmon Smith

…support. New recruitment strategies were implemented that aimed to increase the student body from its tenuous level of about 400. In 1955, Dr. Smith interested Mr. Charles A. Cannon of…

Josiah Hale

…Sagittaria calycina maxima Engelm. collected in Louisiana is the type specimen. Jared G. Smith re-named it Lophotocarpus calycinus in 1900 (6). Josiah Hale was also interested in cryptogams (7). He…

Ellsworth Bethel

…University fungi CHRB Rutgers University fungi BPI United States National Fungi Collection fungi ARIZ University of Arizona fungi UBC University of British Columbia fungi UC University of California, Berkeley fungi,…

Louis Hermann Pammel

…Ecology 10(2): 251-256. Pammel, Louis H. and Charlotte M. King (1930?) Honey Plants of Iowa. Iowa Geological Survey [incomplete citation]   Sources: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isu150/history/pammel.htmlaccessed on 19 July 2017. 2. http://www.waysofenlichenment.net/lichens/Bacidia%20coprodes accessed…

New Species of Foamflower

…home using its Latin name, which means “little crown.” Others would call it “foamflower.” It’s easy to recognize and a beautiful plant growing in beautiful places. Perhaps fewer know that…

Preserves and Natural Areas

…on designated paths, and don’t disturb plants, animals, fungi, or rocks. You’re in a natural setting and may see poison ivy, stinging insects, or snakes. If you keep clear of…

William McCally Pollock

…World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…Illinois State Academy of Science 65: 82-83. 2. SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on September 21. 3. IPNI (2023). International Plant Names Index. Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org, The…

Seraph A. Bliss

…Bliss entered Mount Holyoke College in 1888 and earned a A. B. and B. S. in 1895. She was a lab assistant in the Physics Department at Mount Holyoke College…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…corps in Europe during World War II and settled in St. Louis, where he earned a doctorate in botany from Washington University in 1949. He did postdoctoral work at University…