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George Washington Carver (1860s–1943) was an inventor, teacher, botanist, and mycologist (a…

Expeditions Women in Science

A trip to Fire Island with Peggy Hopkins

Feb 28 2019

While we might not get to summer with the likes of Madonna…

Good grief, Charles Geyer

Mar 1 2019

Charles (Karl) A. Geyer was a pioneer botanical collector of the Northwestern…

Ynes Mexia

Mar 6 2019

Ynes Mexia began her botanical career at age 55 when she embarked…

By Leanna Feder

Art Cronquist's Hat

Mar 9 2019

Expeditions Collectors

If you spend time looking at herbarium specimens collected by Arthur Cronquist,…

Kuntze in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Mar 19 2019

Otto Kuntze collected this specimen in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in March…

Kuntze in Garrison, New York

Mar 19 2019

Otto Kuntze took a boat trip up the Hudson River in 1874…

Kuntze in San Francisco, California

Mar 19 2019

Otto Kuntze collected this plant in San Francisco. He boarded a ship…

Kuntze in Matheran, India

Mar 19 2019

Otto Kuntze spent December 1875 in the Western Ghat mountains of India,…

Kuntze in Trinidad

Mar 19 2019

Otto Kuntze collected this plant in Trinidad in 1874. 360° view of…

Collectors Women in Science

Becoming a mountain woman

Mar 19 2019

Marie Mooar spent a lot of time in the wilds of western…

James Lendemer

Mar 21 2019

James Lendemer is one of the youngest curators at the New York…

By Laura Briscoe

Otto Kuntze 1874-1876 Trip Around the World

Mar 21 2019

Otto Kuntze spent two full years from February 1874 to February 1876 traveling around…

Collectors Women in Science

Three Thousand Miles up the Amazon

Mar 21 2019

Expeditions

At the age of 61, Ynés Mexía embarked on the adventure of…

By Ynés E. J. Mexia, Leanna Feder

Alice Eastwood

Mar 22 2019

Alice Eastwood was a self-taught Canadian-American botanist. After graduating from high school…

By Leanna Feder

Charles Fremont

Mar 22 2019

Collectors Women in Science

Most of us take road maps for granted. Early voyagers across the…

By Amy Weiss, Nicole Tarnowsky

The Lemmons: Partners in Botany

Mar 22 2019

Sara Plummer met John Gill Lemmon in 1876 when he came to…

By Amy Weiss, Nicole Tarnowsky

Kuntze on Devil's Peak, South Africa

Mar 24 2019

See what Otto Kuntze would have seen from Devil's Peak, South Africa…