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Kuntze in Garrison, New York

Mar 19 2019

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

By Nicole Tarnowsky

Kuntze in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Mar 19 2019

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

By Nicole Tarnowsky

Kuntze in Matheran, India

Mar 19 2019

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

By Nicole Tarnowsky

Kuntze in Rio Paraguay, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Mar 25 2019

In July 1892, Kuntze traveled down the Rio Paraguay, into Mato Grosso,…

By Nicole Tarnowsky

Kuntze in San Francisco, California

Mar 19 2019

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

By Nicole Tarnowsky

Kuntze in Trinidad

Mar 19 2019

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

By 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…

By Nicole Tarnowsky

Mary Emily Eaton

Mar 6 2019

Works of ArtWomen in Science

Mary Emily Eaton was an accomplished natural history illustrator employed at the…

By Nicole Tarnowsky, Laura Briscoe

Mary Treat

Feb 7 2019

CollectorsWomen in Science

Those who have read Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel, Unsheltered, will be familiar with the…

By Laura Briscoe

Milestones

May 13 2019

Specimen Stories

Since its inception NYBG has focused on building an extensive and valuable herbarium…

By Nicole Tarnowsky

Myanmar Mystery Solved

Jan 6 2020

Focus on Science

Working in a Herbarium sometimes requires detective work.  This Myanmar mystery started…

By Lance E. Jones, Kate E. Armstrong

NAACP member J. E. Spingarn and the Clematis…

Feb 18 2023

Collectors

Joel Elias Spingarn (May 17, 1875 - July 26, 1939) was a…

By Kenneth Reginald Otero-Walker

Newspaper time capsule: B. Maguire 23559

Mar 22 2019

Specimen Stories

A trip to the field isn't always necessary to describe a new…

By Amy Weiss

Oro City – A Colorado Ghost Town

Jul 22 2019

ExpeditionsSpecimen Stories

Oro City was a gold placer (stream-bed) mining town in Colorado, founded…

By Sarah Dutton

Otto Kuntze

Apr 12 2019

CollectorsExpeditions

Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze was a german botanist who made expeditions to every…

By Nicole Tarnowsky

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…

By Nicole Tarnowsky

Otto Kuntze 1891-1893 Trip through South America

Mar 26 2019

From 1891 to 1893 Otto Kuntze explored South America. He started this…

By Nicole Tarnowsky

Otto Kuntze 1894 Trip to Southern Africa

Mar 26 2019

Otto Kuntze spent 4 months exploring Southern Africa, arriving in Cape Town,…

By Nicole Tarnowsky