Dr. Héctor S. Osorio (1928-2016)
Dr. Héctor Saul Osorio, born in 1928 in Montevideo, was a Uruguayan…
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Dr. Héctor Saul Osorio, born in 1928 in Montevideo, was a Uruguayan…
Juan Larraín is a self-taught bryologist who focuses on bryophyte diversity in…
Dra. Gabriela Gustava Hässel de Menéndez’s scientific career spanned almost sixty years…
Laura Guzmán-Dávalos’ explorations into the world of fungi are vast and far-reaching,…
Dr. Lidia Itatí Ferraro, born in 1951, is an accomplished Argentine lichenologist.…
Noris Salazar-Allen, acclaimed researcher and bryologist, studies the group of non-vascular plants…
Specimen StoriesWomen in Science
Tucked away in an office drawer of NYBG’s Fern Curator, Robbin Moran,…
Between 1805 and 1813, in Ballylickey on the shores of Bantry Bay,…
The Bahamas suffered its worst natural disaster recently as Hurricane Dorian, a…
A recent expedition to eastern Cuba took three Cuban colleagues and me…
In February 1906, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Britton, founders of The New York…
Focus on ScienceWhat's in a name?
The amount of time between when a species is first collected and…
George Washington Carver (1860s–1943) was an inventor, teacher, botanist, and mycologist (a…
Geraldine Watson, born in Louisiana in 1925, never planned to become a…
Charles (Karl) A. Geyer was a pioneer botanical collector of the Northwestern…
The NYBG herbarium has over two thousand specimens that are labeled as collected…