Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…if Williston collected any herbarium specimens. Fortunately, the online database where we catalog our specimens (sernecportal.org) also searches other herbaria consortia across North America, including the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium. Searching…

Miklos Treiber

…Many of Treiber’s specimens deposited at NCU were collected for his doctoral thesis “Biosystematics of the Arisaema triphyllum complex” ; his doctoral advisor was Dr. C. Ritchie Bell. Treiber and…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. Family Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65538811 Piedmont Springs: https://www.livingplaces.com/NC/Stokes_County/Danbury_Town/Danbury_Historic_District.html Piedmont Springs Hotel:…

Mildred Gant Stites Reed

…images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166184436/mildred-gant-reed : accessed 12 September 2021), memorial page for Mildred Gant Stites Reed (9 Jan 1912–Jun 1967), Find a Grave Memorial ID 166184436, citing Greenmount Cemetery, Durango, La Plata…

Nathan Barrows

…C. (1980 ) Rollins College: A Pictorial History. Rose Printing Company, Inc., Tallahassee, Florida. http://www.cfmemory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/cfm&CISOPTR=37644&REC=1 accessed on 9 May 2007. 3. In Memoriam of Dr. Nathan Barrows. Undated, ca. 1900….

Josiah Hale

…M.D., Louisiana botanist, Rafinesque’s pupil. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. 8: 235-243. http://www.tulane.edu/~darwin/Herbarium/Herbarium/Herbarium%20History.htm http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/RIDDELL.html Torrey and Gray (1842) A Flora of North America 2: 304….

William Wirt Calkins

…a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/238001736/william-wirt-calkins: accessed 06 February 2023), memorial page for William Wirt Calkins (29 May 1842–9 Jul 1914), Find a Grave Memorial ID 238001736, citing Ottawa Avenue…

Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr.

…and getting a Christmas card from him with one of his beautiful photos on it.”” (2) SOURCES: Obituary: Charles Lewis McCartney, Jr. 20 October 2020. Cherokee Scout [newspaper]. https://www.cherokeescout.com/obituaries/charles-lewis-mccartney-jr ….

Charles Wright

…National Science Foundation, all the mycological collections at NCU are searchable via www.mycoportal.org and our vascular plants are searchable via www.sernecportal.org Other herbaria that curate Charles Wright’s specimens include the…

Elsie Julia Gibson Whitney

…of the Naval Radio Station, habitually had Auzenia Diakanof, a native girl, at the station for immoral purposes, that her mother had complained to Hope about the matter, and he…