Typical: Christmas in the clouds
Bassett Maguire (1904–1991), a botanist who spent the majority of his career…
A trip to Fire Island with Peggy Hopkins
While we might not get to summer with the likes of Madonna…
Bigelow's mushroom photographs
In the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden there are over 30,000…
Salix loan to Japan
Botany is a collaborative science that relies on sharing data and specimens…
A botanist's best friend
Botanists and dogs make good companions in the field. Dogs provide companionship, warn…
Western Road Trip
In the summer of 1952, recently retired Wabash College¹ botany professor Albert…
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (1860s–1943) was an inventor, teacher, botanist, and mycologist (a…
Women in Genera
What's in a name?Women in Science
For as long as we've been using binomial nomenclature to name species,…
Good grief, Charles Geyer
Charles (Karl) A. Geyer was a pioneer botanical collector of the Northwestern…
Art Cronquist's Hat
If you spend time looking at herbarium specimens collected by Arthur Cronquist,…
The Lemmons: Partners in Botany
Sara Plummer met John Gill Lemmon in 1876 when he came to…
Myanmar Mystery Solved
Working in a Herbarium sometimes requires detective work. This Myanmar mystery started…
From 1920’s adventure narrative to new species –…
Focus on ScienceWhat's in a name?
The amount of time between when a species is first collected and…
The LGBTQ+ Legacy of NYBG: Out of the…
Herbarium specimens are kept in metal cabinets to protect them from damage.…
Exploring the Bahamas with Lewis Jones Knight Brace
The Bahamas suffered its worst natural disaster recently as Hurricane Dorian, a…
NYBG 2022 New Species Review!
Every year, botanists describe hundreds of new plant, algal, fungal, and lichen…
NYBG 2024 New Species Review!
Every year, botanists describe hundreds of new plants, algae, fungi, and lichens…