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Professor emeritus Robert Ornduff died September 22, 2000 in Berkeley from complications of metastatic melanoma. Bob was a field botanist...
Even in her seventies, Emily Moore made an impression with her beauty, grace, and energetic spirit. She had presence and...
Joseph F Williamson, Jr, died April 10, 2000, at his home in Corte Madera, California, after a gallant battle against...
In 1997, I visited Chile and Argentina, attempting to follow a little in my late father’s footsteps. In both countries,...
Intrepid plant hunters in the first half of this century wrote about their adventures in a number of memorable accounts....
In 1965 Dr Rimo Bacigalupi described the twenty-five-year-old East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley’s Tilden Park in the...
A few days after Christmas 1962, Theodore Payne, then ninety years old, visited fellow plantsman Eddie Merrill, owner of La...
A few years ago, writing an obituary for plantswoman Nova Leach of Stockton, I used with full feeling the expression...
In 1941 Marshall Olbrich came to California from Wisconsin to do graduate work in philosophy at the University of California,...